The enclosure, measuring approximately 44 metres north to south and 35 metres east to west, is not the kind of monument that announces itself. It was marked on the 1812 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, one of the earliest systematic cartographic surveys of Ireland, which means it was already visible as a feature of the landscape more than two centuries ago, though its age and original purpose remain uncertain.

What makes the location quietly compelling is its immediate neighbourhood. Some 50 metres to the south-west lies a fulacht fia, a type of ancient cooking site found widely across Ireland and typically associated with Bronze Age activity. A fulacht fia usually consists of a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt and shattered stone beside a trough, where water was heated by dropping fire-cracked rocks into it. The proximity of the two features, the possible enclosure and the fulacht fia, on the same flat karst pavement suggests this patch of Burren limestone may have seen sustained, if enigmatic, use over a considerable stretch of time. The enclosure itself was brought to the attention of the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maolduin, and remains a "possible" rather than confirmed monument, which is itself a reminder of how much of the Irish archaeological landscape still resists tidy classification.