It is not dramatic to look at, and that is partly the point. This kind of site, a subcircular enclosure defined by little more than a buried or collapsed stone boundary, is easy to walk past without registering what it is. The karst terrain of County Clare, with its exposed limestone pavements and thin scrubby vegetation, is scattered with such features, each one a quiet cipher from an earlier period of settlement and land use.

The enclosure at Sheshymore sits within a broader archaeological landscape. Approximately 130 metres to the east-north-east lies a cashel, a type of stone-walled circular enclosure typically associated with early medieval Ireland and often interpreted as a defended farmstead or high-status residence. Whether the two features are contemporary or represent different phases of activity in the area is not recorded, but their proximity suggests this hillside was a meaningful place for more than one generation of inhabitants. The wall of the enclosure itself was identified through aerial and satellite imagery, becoming legible on Digital Globe photography and on Ordnance Survey Ireland orthophotography from successive survey periods in the 2010s, even where it has become largely invisible at ground level.