Tucked into a hollow on a south-facing slope within a hazel wood in Clooneen, County Clare, this large circular enclosure had been listed as a site of archaeological interest for years before anyone took a close look at it. When that inspection finally came, in 1997, it revealed a structure of modern construction, its drystone wall largely collapsed but still tracing a rough circle of around sixty metres in diameter.

Drystone walling, built without mortar by laying stones so that they lock and support one another, is a technique with roots stretching back thousands of years in Ireland, which is part of what makes dating such structures by appearance alone so difficult. This enclosure is defined by a wall roughly one and a half to two metres wide and now standing between half a metre and one metre high in places. Most of the stone is small, though there are some larger loose boulders of up to a metre worked into the structure. The site had been marked with a solid line on the 1916 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which gave it an air of established significance, and it duly appeared in the Sites and Monuments Record in 1992 and the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996. The 1997 visit quietly revised that assumption without stripping the place of its character.

What remains is a substantial ring of collapsed stone sitting in woodland, its original purpose unrecorded. The hazel canopy and the sheltered hollow would make it easy to miss, and the wall, though ruinous, is still legible as a boundary of some kind. Whether it enclosed animals, defined a plot, or served some other practical function on this sloped ground, the record does not say.