Whatever boundary once defined this space, whether a raised earthen bank, a ditch, or some combination of both, has been worn down or ploughed away to the point where nothing remains visible to someone walking the site today. The only reliable record of its outline is a cartographic one, captured by the Ordnance Survey in 1838, when surveyors used hachuring, a technique of short radiating lines used on maps to indicate an earthwork or raised feature, to mark its presence on their six-inch sheet.

The enclosure sits on a gentle south-east facing slope, and it does not sit alone. Two further enclosures of a similar character lie close by, suggesting that whatever activity or habitation this landscape once supported, it was not isolated or incidental. Such groupings of enclosures are a recurring pattern in the Irish archaeological record, and while the function of any individual example is rarely easy to determine without excavation, they are broadly associated with early agricultural or settlement activity, sometimes dating to the early medieval period, sometimes earlier. The fact that the 1838 surveyors could still detect this one as a legible feature in the landscape, while it has since disappeared entirely, is a reminder of how much has been quietly lost from the Irish countryside in the intervening two centuries.