No earthwork rises from the grass, no bank catches the eye, and no hollow suggests what lay here before. The site has been levelled, leaving no visible surface trace of the sub-circular enclosure that once occupied this ground, measuring roughly twenty metres east to west and fifteen metres north to south.

The enclosure first appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, recorded with enough clarity to establish its rough shape and dimensions. By later editions of the same map, only the south-western portion of its bank survived, and even that had been absorbed into a field boundary, visible as nothing more than a slight curve in the fence line. Enclosures of this kind are among the most common early medieval monuments in Ireland, often associated with ringforts, which were typically circular earthen or stone enclosures used as farmsteads. The relationship here is suggestive: a circular enclosure and a possible ringfort sit roughly a hundred metres to the south and east respectively, hinting that this part of Hightown was once a more densely occupied landscape than the quiet grazing land it presents today.