The bank runs from the north-west through west to south-south-east, averaging seven metres across and rising to about a metre in height, which is modest by the standards of prehistoric or early medieval enclosures but still substantial enough to read clearly in the landscape. What makes the site quietly curious is its incompleteness, and the question of whether that incompleteness is original or the result of centuries of agricultural pressure.

By the time the Ordnance Survey mapped the area in 1842, the semi-circular form was already recorded, suggesting the bank had survived intact enough to be worth noting. The 1916 revision of the map shows it again, though by that point a fieldbank cutting across in a north-west to south-east direction had already intersected the enclosure, dividing the ground and complicating the original layout. Enclosures of this kind, a defined area bounded by an earthen bank and sometimes an accompanying ditch, were common across early Irish settlement for centuries, used variously as farmsteads, cattle enclosures, or as boundaries with ritual or social significance. Whether this particular example at Dromgower served any of those purposes is not recorded. A track now clips the north-western sector, adding one more layer of alteration to a feature that has been quietly eroding and adapting since long before the first mapmaker arrived to draw it.