The shape is what sets it apart, at least on paper: not the familiar circle of a ringfort, which is the form most commonly associated with early Irish settlement enclosures, but a pear shape, roughly 21 metres across at its widest point east to west and about 13 metres north to south. The bank that traces this outline is so low and so spread that it reads more as a gentle swelling of the ground than as anything deliberately constructed. Grassed over and soft-edged, it asks nothing of the eye.

The enclosure was recorded by Cody in 1989 and compiled as part of the Galway Archaeological Survey carried out through University College Galway. Beyond those bare facts, the site keeps its history close. Enclosures of this kind in Ireland are broadly associated with early medieval settlement, though they also appear in later agricultural and ecclesiastical contexts, and the unusual pear-shaped outline here does not fit neatly into any single category. The south-facing slope suggests whoever shaped this ground was thinking about warmth and drainage, practical considerations that speak across centuries, even if the waterlogged pasture around it suggests the drainage problem was never fully solved.