No wall survives, no ditch breaks the surface in any obvious way; the enclosure at Skeheen exists, for now, primarily as a crop or soil mark, its outline caught in aerial photography taken between 2011 and 2013.

Enclosures of this kind are among the more enigmatic features of the Irish landscape. The circular form is ancient shorthand for a great range of purposes, from domestic settlement to ritual use, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say which applies. What gives the Skeheen site additional interest is its proximity to a ring-barrow, a low earthen burial mound enclosed by a surrounding ditch or bank, which sits approximately 485 metres to the north-west. The two features may have nothing to do with one another, or they may reflect a pattern of activity in the same small territory across many centuries. That ambiguity is, in its own way, part of what makes such places worth noticing.