Some thirty metres across, it shows up as a hachured feature on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, those fine radiating lines used by cartographers to indicate an earthwork or raised feature, yet anyone standing on the site today would find nothing obviously visible at ground level. The landscape has quietly absorbed it.

The enclosure sits on a south-facing slope, ranging from gentle to moderately inclined, and what makes its situation additionally interesting is that it is not alone. A second enclosure lies roughly twenty-five metres to the south, suggesting that whatever activity once took place here was not isolated but part of a broader pattern of settlement or land use. Circular enclosures of this kind are a common feature of the Irish archaeological landscape, typically formed by an earthen bank and internal ditch defining a domestic or agricultural space, most often associated with the early medieval period, though many examples are older. That two should occur in such close proximity at Moneymore hints at a concentration of past activity on this particular hillside, even if the ground itself now keeps its own counsel.