It left no trace visible from satellite imagery, no surface remains that can be measured or photographed, and yet it was recorded in enough detail that we know roughly how you reached it: by two small foot-bridges, along a shaded lane-way from a kitchen, past a cross-branch of a stream. The description is oddly intimate, the kind of detail that survives because someone bothered to write it down before the land swallowed it entirely.

The record of this enclosure comes from Wardell, writing in 1904, who described the southern of two fields as retaining traces of earthen mounds, the last legible signs of whatever boundary or structure had once organised the ground. The field sits about 150 metres south-west of the Augustinian nunnery of Monasternagalliaghduff, a house of nuns whose name translates roughly as the monastery of the black-habited women, and whose remains still stand in this corner of Limerick. The wider landscape here was once the grounds of Old Abbey House, now surviving some 200 metres to the north-east, and the surrounding fields hold a small cluster of features that speak to a long period of careful management: a dovecote, an orchard, a fish pond, a standing stone some 80 metres to the east, and a gateway close to where this vanished enclosure would have lain. An enclosure, in this context, typically refers to a defined area bounded by earthen banks or ditches, used to organise land for agriculture, habitation, or other purposes, though in this case its original function remains unclear.

Visitors to the area will find the Augustinian nunnery the most visible landmark to orient by, with Old Abbey House surviving nearby as a further reference point. The enclosure itself is in pasture, and given that no surface remains have been identified even through aerial and satellite imagery, there is nothing to see at ground level in the conventional sense. What the site offers instead is a particular quality of layered absence, a field that was once crossed by foot-bridges and shaded lanes, described with care in 1904, and now returned entirely to grass. The standing stone 80 metres to the east is a more tangible point of interest in the same small complex of features, and the fish pond and dovecote to the north are worth locating if access allows.