It appears on maps and in monument registers, but the formal description that would tell us what it is, how old it is, and what it once enclosed has not yet been made publicly available. The gap itself is quietly telling.

Enclosures are among the most common and most varied features in the Irish archaeological landscape. The word covers an enormous range, from prehistoric ring ditches and early medieval ringforts to ecclesiastical enclosures that once marked the boundary of a monastic site. In Clare, a county whose terrain preserves ancient features with unusual clarity due to the thin soils over its limestone bedrock, an enclosure can be anything from a low grassed-over bank to a substantial stone cashel wall. Kilcorney is a small rural townland, and without further detail it is impossible to say more about this particular example than that it was considered significant enough to be formally recorded as a monument.