Locally it is called the Lisheen, a diminutive of the Irish word lios, typically used for a small ringfort or enclosure, and according to local tradition it served as a children's burial ground. Sites like this, sometimes called cillíní, were used across Ireland for the interment of unbaptised infants and others considered ineligible for consecrated ground. The category carries a particular weight in Irish social history, representing families who buried children outside the formal structures of the church, often in places already set apart by age or strangeness.

The circular enclosure appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838, already a feature distinct enough to record, but by the 1917 edition it had been omitted, suggesting it had become sufficiently degraded to escape the surveyors' attention. What survives today is a low, ruinous stony scarp, standing between 0.3 and 0.4 metres for most of its circuit, though at the north and north-east, where the natural ground falls away, it was built up higher and still reaches around 0.9 metres. At the north, large stones protrude from the outer face in something like a rough kerb, an arrangement that probably reflects the enclosure being absorbed into a later east-west field boundary rather than any original design. The interior remains level and grassy, sitting at the foot of a cluster of low drumlin-like rises, with open views stretching to the north-east and a farmyard close by to the north-west.

The enclosure is set within working agricultural land, and much of its northern and north-western arc has been almost entirely levelled. What remains is subtle enough that a visitor crossing the field might not immediately read it as an enclosure at all, more a slight swelling in the pasture with stones appearing at odd angles from the turf. The north-north-east section, where the scarp is most intact, gives the clearest sense of the original circuit.