It survives not as a standing feature but as a cropmark, the buried outline of an ancient fosse, a defensive or boundary ditch cut into the earth, showing up in aerial photographs as a faint discolouration in the crops above it. No gate, no causeway, no break in the circuit has been identified, which raises the immediate question of what exactly this enclosure was for.

The most plausible answer is an early agricultural one. The site sits on a slight rise within an otherwise level landscape, and that modest elevation would have made it attractive for a field or enclosure designed to take advantage of marginally better-drained ground. What makes it particularly interesting is its relationship to a nearby rath, the term for a roughly circular earthen enclosure, typically of early medieval date, that served as a farmstead or settlement. The two features are contemporaneous; the fosse of this enclosure connects directly to the fosse of the rath at the north-east, suggesting they were laid out as part of the same organised use of the landscape rather than at separate times by separate hands. A further enclosure lies approximately seventy metres to the south-west, reinforcing the sense that this small patch of Wexford farmland was once a carefully partitioned place, its boundaries dug with intent even if those boundaries have long since silted up and vanished beneath the plough.