But the roughly D-shaped enclosure at Churchtown rewards closer attention. Its defining feature is a scarped edge, essentially a cut or stepped drop in the ground, which runs around the perimeter and becomes noticeably more pronounced towards the south, where it rises to nearly a metre in height and widens to over five metres. An external fosse, a ditch, follows much of the outer circuit from the north-west around to the south, and there is a possible causeway crossing the scarp at the north-west, suggesting a deliberate, original point of entry.

Enclosures of this type are scattered across the Irish countryside and are often associated with early medieval settlement, though their precise function and date can be difficult to pin down without excavation. The D-shape here, roughly twelve metres north to south and fourteen metres east to west, is modest in scale, and the variation in the scarp's height around the circuit is worth noting. At the south it is considerably more substantial than elsewhere, which may reflect either the original design or differential survival over centuries of agricultural use. The site sits on a gentle west-facing slope, and its interior, still under pasture, slopes down quietly to the east. Denis Power compiled the record for this site, which was uploaded to the survey in August 2011.

The enclosure sits in working farmland, so access would depend on landowner permission. There are no formal facilities or signage. The site is most legible in low winter light or early morning, when raking shadows across the ground bring out the subtle earthworks far more clearly than they would appear at midday in summer. A shallow dry gully cuts across the fosse between the south-east and south, which slightly interrupts the otherwise coherent circuit and is worth tracing on foot to understand how the drainage of the slope has altered the earthwork over time. The place name, Churchtown, hints at an ecclesiastical layer to the local landscape, though nothing in the current survey record directly connects this enclosure to any religious site.