Nothing of it remains visible today, no earthen bank, no ditch, no crop mark that a passing walker might notice. Its existence is known only because a cartographer recorded it on the third edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map in 1920, by which point the enclosure was already being bisected by the townland boundary itself, cutting across it at the north-north-east and west-north-west.

Circular enclosures of this kind are common enough across Ireland that they rarely attract much attention individually, yet each one represents a significant commitment of labour. Many are the remains of raths or ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, where an earthen bank and external ditch defined a family's domestic space and provided some measure of security for livestock. Others may be earlier, associated with Bronze Age or Iron Age activity. At fifty metres in external diameter, the Laurclavagh example would have been a fairly typical specimen. The fact that a townland boundary runs through it suggests the enclosure had already lost its legible form, and perhaps its social meaning, long before the boundary lines were formalised, since such boundaries tend to follow older features rather than cut carelessly across them when those features are still prominent in the landscape.