What makes the site quietly puzzling is how it appeared differently to the cartographers who mapped it: the 1916 Ordnance Survey six-inch edition recorded it as a subcircular enclosure roughly twenty-three metres in diameter, while the same 1916 edition elsewhere rendered it as diamond-shaped. Whether that discrepancy reflects the difficulty of reading an overgrown earthwork from ground level, or simply an inconsistency in the draughting, is not resolved.

The enclosure sits on a slight east-facing slope, and its proximity to the wedge tomb to its south-east has led to speculation that the two features may have been associated. A wedge tomb is a type of Neolithic or early Bronze Age megalithic burial monument, typically a tapering stone-built chamber covered by a cairn, and the examples in Clare are among the most concentrated in Ireland. The site was noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin, and a further possible enclosure lies approximately one hundred and thirty metres to the south-east of the wedge tomb, hinting that this particular patch of Clare scrubland was more organised, and more purposefully used, than its current appearance would suggest.