There is no earthwork to trace, no ridge to follow, no visible feature of any kind at ground level. The land was ploughed and reseeded around thirty years ago, which may explain why nothing survives above the surface, but the enclosure itself predates that disturbance by a considerable margin, unrecorded on any edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps that have been charting Irish townlands since the nineteenth century.

The site was identified by Martin Doody during the Bruff Survey, one of the regional field survey programmes that have brought numerous unrecorded monuments to light across Munster. What makes the Moanmore enclosure particularly intriguing is its apparent relationship with a second, smaller enclosure nearby. The two appear to be concentric, meaning they share roughly the same centre point, one ring sitting inside the other. Concentric enclosures of this kind are known from elsewhere in Ireland and are associated with a range of periods and functions, from early medieval settlement to prehistoric ceremonial use, though without excavation it is impossible to say what purpose this particular arrangement served or when it was made. The surrounding ground is gently undulating low-lying pasture, with moderate to good views in all directions, the kind of landscape that would have offered a settled, workable situation for whoever built here.