At Pullagh in County Clare, a feature marked on a 1916 Ordnance Survey map and later entered into the Record of Monuments and Places as an enclosure was inspected in 1997 and found to be exactly what it looked like: a drystone wall of modern construction, sitting on a shelf of level, outcropping rock, half-collapsed and well on its way to being swallowed by the surrounding hazel scrub.

Drystone enclosures of genuinely early date do exist across the Clare landscape, and it is easy to see how one in poor condition, in a dense and difficult patch of scrub, might attract cautious interest. The 1916 map notation gave the feature an air of longevity, and the Record of Monuments and Places, compiled in 1996, duly listed it. When an inspection was eventually carried out the following year, the wall failed to yield any evidence of early origin. It is a single-course drystone boundary, not an ancient cashel or ring enclosure, and the hazel growth pressing in around it has done more to preserve its outline than any historical significance.