A shed now leans against its northeastern perimeter, two gaps have been cut through its wall at the east and south-southeast, and ivy or scrub has crept across its western and southern stretches. And yet the structure persists, its interior measuring nearly twenty-five metres across, the wall still standing to between half a metre and a metre on the inside face.

This kind of enclosure is a common but still poorly understood feature of the Irish landscape. Stone-walled enclosures of this type are often associated with early medieval settlement, functioning as enclosures for a farmstead or small community, though without excavation it is rarely possible to say precisely when or for how long any individual example was in use. What gives this one a little extra context is its appearance on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1840 and 1916, where it was marked with hachuring, the cartographic convention used to indicate an earthwork or upstanding monument. It was already old enough to record then, and old enough to still be worth recording nearly eighty years later. The surrounding ground is undulating and marshy, the slope faces south, and the site commands clear views in that direction, a combination that would have made it a sensible choice for an early settlement. Roughly 260 metres to the east lies a rath, a ringfort typically formed by an earthen bank and ditch, suggesting that this part of Moymore was a locale of some significance over a long period.

The farmyard remains in use even though the adjacent house stands empty, so the enclosure continues to exist in a kind of half-agricultural, half-archaeological limbo. The single stone wall, though narrow at around thirty centimetres wide, retains a bank of collapsed material spread around its base, the slow accumulation of centuries of settling stone.