The ditch measures roughly four and a half metres in external diameter, narrowing to three metres internally, a ring just large enough to have enclosed something significant, though what exactly that something was remains a matter of interpretation.

The feature came to light during archaeological monitoring in 2006, the sort of careful watching brief that accompanies ground disturbance on sites of potential interest. What the excavators found in the fill was not structural debris or artefacts in the conventional sense, but spreads of charcoal and bone. Ring-ditches of this kind are generally understood as the eroded or ploughed-down remains of Bronze Age funerary monuments, the circular trenches that once defined a barrow or a low mound raised over a burial. The presence of charcoal and bone fits that interpretation: cremation was a common burial rite across much of prehistoric Ireland, and the burnt residue of such practices frequently survives in the fills of these encircling ditches long after any above-ground mounding has vanished entirely. The findings were reported by O'Carroll in 2009, and though the site is small, it represents the kind of quiet evidence through which the funerary landscapes of prehistoric Wicklow are slowly being pieced together.