The ground holds nothing visible; the fields offer no ridge, no dip, no arc of raised earth to betray what was once there. The only reason we know to look at all is a pair of curving hachure lines, the cartographic shorthand used to suggest earthworks, on the third edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map published in 1933. By the time anyone thought to record it formally, the enclosure had already gone.

Circular enclosures of this kind are common enough in the Irish landscape to form a recognisable category. They are generally associated with the early medieval period, though many have earlier origins, and they served variously as ringforts, the farmsteads of prosperous families, or enclosures with ritual and burial functions. What the Lisduff example was used for is unknown. The 1933 map also marks a well immediately to the south-east of the enclosure, and that well survives, occupying a large hollow in the ground. Wells in close proximity to enclosures are not unusual in Ireland, and holy wells in particular often retained their local significance long after the earthworks beside them had been ploughed flat or simply worn away by centuries of agriculture. A separate earthwork was recorded about a hundred metres to the south-west, suggesting that whatever activity once took place here was not entirely isolated.

The well hollow is the one legible feature remaining on the ground. Everything else has been absorbed into the working farmland, leaving the 1933 map as the primary witness to a site that was already fading when the surveyors passed through.