Measuring roughly 30 to 34 metres north to south and 25 to 27 metres east to west, it is the kind of feature that catches the eye of a cartographer but rarely earns a mention in any other record. Enclosures of this general type are found across Ireland and can date to almost any period, from the early medieval era through to post-medieval land management, though without excavation it is rarely possible to say with confidence what purpose any individual example served.

What gives this particular enclosure a quiet geographical interest is the way a townland boundary runs north to south along its eastern edge. Townland boundaries in Ireland are ancient administrative lines, often following natural or man-made features that were already old when the boundaries were formalised. The fact that this boundary appears to respect the enclosure rather than cut across it suggests the earthwork was already a recognised feature in the landscape when the boundary was drawn, though whether it predates it by decades or centuries is impossible to say from the cartographic record alone. The enclosure appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839 and is still present on the revision carried out between 1899 and 1902, confirming it survived at least into the late nineteenth century.