What was once a subtriangular boundary, roughly 155 metres north to south and 125 metres east to west, with gently curving sides and rounded corners, is no longer legible at ground level. You would not know it was there by walking it. The enclosure survives, instead, in an aerial photograph taken by Leo Swan in 1991, and in the faint traces visible on more recent orthophotography, particularly along the north-west to north-east arc, where the outline briefly reasserts itself against the fields.

Ecclesiastical enclosures of this kind, defined by a roughly circular or subtriangular boundary, were the organising form of early Irish monastic settlements, marking off sacred ground from the surrounding landscape. This particular example overlooked Muckanagh Lough to the south and commanded wide views eastward and south-westward, a position that reads less like accident than deliberate choice. The enclosure was already mapped by the Ordnance Survey in 1842 and again in the 1920 edition, suggesting its outline was still traceable in the nineteenth century even if it has since flattened further. Within its south-western corner, a walled graveyard still stands, and inside that are the ruins of Kilkeedy Church and what appears to be a medieval house. Just south-east of the graveyard, a holy well completes the cluster, a type of water source long associated with early Christian sites in Ireland, often maintaining local devotional use across many centuries.

The visible remnants are modest but layered: a ruined church, a medieval domestic structure, and a holy well, all gathered within the ghost of a boundary that once gave the whole complex its shape and meaning. The enclosure itself requires a particular kind of looking, the kind aided more by an aerial vantage point than by boots on the ground.