From the ground, the traces are faint, little more than the suggestion of earthen banks pressing up through the grass, the kind of thing a walker might cross without a second thought.

Circular earthen enclosures of this type are among the more quietly common features of the Irish archaeological landscape, believed in many cases to be the remains of ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads that dotted the countryside throughout the early medieval period. What makes this site at Carrowmore slightly unusual is its conjoined form: two enclosures sharing a boundary, the northerly one recorded here and its companion immediately adjacent. This arrangement, sometimes called a bivallate or figure-of-eight form depending on the configuration, is less frequently encountered than a single enclosure standing alone. The site appears in a 1994 archaeological survey of the Ballinrobe district, compiled by D. Lavelle for the Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association, which catalogued the broader landscape around those two lakes in south Mayo.