It is not signposted, not celebrated, and not entirely explained. What it is, precisely, remains an open question.

The enclosure was identified not by a field survey but through aerial imagery, spotted by researcher Ros Ó Maoldúin in Digital Globe imagery from 2011 to 2013 and confirmed in OSi aerial photography from 2012 to 2018. Karst landscape, the bare or thinly soiled limestone terrain characteristic of much of County Clare, is notoriously difficult to read on the ground; features that are invisible underfoot can resolve clearly from above, where the contrast between stone and scrub reveals outlines that centuries of weathering have otherwise softened. The function of this particular enclosure is unrecorded. Stone-walled enclosures in the Irish countryside range widely in date and purpose, from early medieval settlement boundaries to animal pounds to field divisions of much more recent origin. A second possible enclosure lies approximately 85 metres to the north-east, which may indicate something more deliberate about the arrangement, or may simply be coincidence preserved in limestone.