What makes the site quietly arresting is the disagreement, or perhaps the ambiguity, in how it is described: one reading sees a large subcircular enclosure roughly 83 metres across its northeast to southwest axis and 76 metres on the northwest to southeast axis; another interprets it as an irregular subrectangular shape, tapering from around 73 metres at the southwest side down to approximately 56 metres at the northeast. The difference matters less than the scale. Either way, this is a substantial enclosure, comparable in size to the larger class of ringfort, the type of enclosed settlement, usually defined by an earthen bank and ditch, that was the dominant form of rural habitation in early medieval Ireland.

What survives today does so in a layered, somewhat compromised state. A townland boundary, one of those ancient administrative lines that often follow far older features in the landscape, runs along the outer edge of the northwest side. Field boundaries track the northeast and southwest perimeters. Agricultural buildings, including a large shed, have been constructed in the narrow rectangular field immediately adjoining the southwest side of the enclosure. This kind of incremental encroachment is common across Irish sites of this type; boundaries shift, farms expand, and the enclosure gradually becomes a useful edge rather than a recognised feature in its own right. The fact that the outline can still be traced at all, in the alignment of hedges and walls and townland limits, speaks to how deeply these early structures shaped the organisation of the land long after their original purpose was forgotten.