Near Dunloe in County Kerry, a circular enclosure was recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map, its eastern side already cut away by a field boundary even then. Today, nothing of it remains above ground.

Circular enclosures of this kind are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape. They are generally interpreted as the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, a low earthen bank and ditch drawn around a dwelling and its immediate yard, separating domestic space from the wider world. The Dunloe example sat in pastureland on the western side of a rise overlooking the Loe river, a setting typical of such sites, which were often positioned with an eye to water and workable ground nearby. Its appearance on the first Ordnance Survey, produced in the nineteenth century, suggests it was still sufficiently intact at that point to be worth recording, though already compromised. Sometime between that survey and the present, the last traces disappeared entirely, absorbed into the agricultural landscape around it.