Not dramatically ruined, not overgrown in any romantic sense, but simply gone, or nearly so. What was once a subcircular earthwork, roughly fifteen metres east to west and twelve metres north to south, now survives as little more than an uneven patch of ground, a few lumps in the pasture, and some scattered piles of field-clearance rubble and domestic refuse. It is the kind of site that rewards only the most patient eye, and even then offers no great spectacle.

The enclosure was significant enough to be recorded by the Ordnance Survey on both their 1842 and 1920 six-inch map editions, marked with hachures, the small radiating lines cartographers used to indicate earthen banks and raised ground. That it appeared on both editions suggests it was still legible as a feature for the better part of a century. By 1996 it was classified as an earthwork in the Record of Monuments and Places, the statutory register of Ireland's known archaeological sites. When someone visited in 1998, however, the enclosure was already effectively gone at ground level, detectable only through the disturbed and uneven texture of the soil beneath the grass. More recently, aerial imagery has caught a faint trace of its outline, the kind of ghost that cropmarks and slight changes in vegetation sometimes preserve long after a monument has vanished from the landscape itself.

What gives the site its quiet interest is its company. About a hundred metres to the south-south-east lies a mound of uncertain purpose, and roughly a hundred and seven metres to the south-west stands Doonmacfelim tower house, a more substantial medieval survival. Tower houses, the compact fortified residences built by Gaelic and Anglo-Norman landowners across Ireland from the fourteenth century onwards, were often the focal points of small local settlements, with enclosures, outbuildings, and associated earthworks clustered nearby. Whether this vanished enclosure relates directly to the tower house or predates it entirely is not recorded, and the rubble and refuse that now marks the spot makes any such reading harder still.