It measures roughly 7.7 metres north to south and 8.3 metres east to west, defined by a surrounding bank about two metres wide. The bank is more pronounced on the exterior, particularly on the northern side where it rises to 1.4 metres, while the interior has subsided to little more than a slight lip. Hawthorn bushes have colonised the perimeter, and the whole thing sits quietly in pasture, looking out over open ground except to the south-east, where a taller knoll cuts off the view.

What makes this feature genuinely puzzling is that it resists any confident identification. It could be the remains of a circular house, the kind of dwelling that would have been built in the vicinity of a rath, which is a type of enclosed farmstead typical of early medieval Ireland, and there is indeed a rath recorded some forty metres to the north. But the form could equally suggest a barrow, a burial mound, though the absence of a fosse, the encircling ditch that typically accompanies such monuments, complicates that reading. A third possibility emerges from the 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which shows a rectangular building immediately to the west of the site. That building no longer stands, but its presence raises the question of whether the earthen platform might be the remnant of a small enclosure or outbuilding connected to that more recent settlement, rather than anything prehistoric or early medieval at all. Three plausible interpretations, and the archaeology, at least on the surface, does not resolve the question.