An ancient enclosure, the kind of roughly circular or oval earthwork that once defined a farmstead or settlement in early medieval Ireland, once occupied a short but moderately steep slope facing north-east. Today, nothing of its bank or adjoining field walls survives at ground level. The site is, in the most literal sense, invisible.

What makes this absence interesting is how clearly the enclosure was once legible to earlier surveyors. When the Ordnance Survey mapped the area at six-inch scale in 1842, the feature was recorded using hachures, the short lines cartographers use to indicate a raised earthwork or bank. It appeared again on the 1915 edition of the same map, though by then something had shifted: the hachures along the WNW-to-north arc had been replaced by a solid line, suggesting the bank was already in a different state of preservation on that side, or that the surveyors were working from slightly different conventions. Between those two surveys and today, the feature has been lost entirely to agricultural improvement and clearance. Nearby, the landscape once held more: the site of a second enclosure lies roughly 300 metres to the WNW, and a poorly preserved cashel, a type of stone-walled ringfort, lies around 300 metres to the west, hinting that this part of Clare was once a settled, organised place in a way the current fields give no reason to suspect.