No earthwork breaks the surface, no visible trace remains; yet an Ordnance Survey map from 1929 records it clearly enough: a roughly circular enclosure, defined by a bank, with an estimated maximum diameter of around 32 metres. It has since been levelled, absorbed into the working farmland around it.

Circular enclosures of this kind are among the more common, if frequently misunderstood, features of the Irish landscape. They range from early medieval ringforts, which served as defended farmsteads, to prehistoric enclosures whose original purposes remain debated. The Kilquire example sits to the west of a broader archaeological complex in the area, suggesting it was once part of a denser cluster of activity in this part of Mayo, between Lough Mask and Lough Carra. A 1994 survey of Ballinrobe and its surrounding district, compiled by D. Lavelle for the Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association, catalogued the site, capturing what the OS map had already documented decades earlier before the enclosure disappeared entirely from the ground.