A roughly circular stone enclosure, about 26 metres across, sits here with a larger annexe of around 38 metres joined to its north-west side. Enclosures of this kind, defined by a continuous stone wall encircling a domestic or agricultural space, are relatively common in the Irish record, but what makes this one worth attention is the suggestion that its wall may have been built on top of an even older enclosing feature, meaning the boundary itself has a history that predates the structure we can see.

The enclosure does not sit alone. It forms part of a field system stretching over a kilometre between the Caher River and Murrooghkilly hill, a network of ancient boundaries that together map out a working agricultural landscape from some earlier period of settlement. The survival of such systems depends almost entirely on land never having been improved or ploughed in the modern sense, and the unreclaimed ground here has acted as an accidental archive. The site was identified relatively recently, noted through Digital Globe satellite imagery taken between 2011 and 2013, and subsequently reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin. The fact that it came to light through aerial and satellite observation rather than ground survey is itself a reminder of how much of Clare's early landscape remains to be properly mapped.