That geography alone gives it an enclosed, secretive quality. What makes it quietly odd, however, is the gap between what it appears to be and what it actually is. Officially catalogued under the umbrella term "enclosure", a category that in Irish archaeology most often points to ringforts, cashels, or other early medieval remains, this roughly circular feature turns out to be something considerably more mundane, and considerably harder to date with confidence.

When the site was physically inspected, the wall defining the enclosure, which runs to around 40 metres in diameter and traces an irregular rather than neatly circular line, was identified as apparently modern construction. It was listed in the Sites and Monuments Record in 1992 and again in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996, giving it a degree of official standing it may not entirely deserve. The interior is hollow and damp, thick with rushes, and most of the wall itself has disappeared beneath heavy vegetation. It is the kind of place that accumulates official attention precisely because, from a distance or on a map, it resembles something ancient, only for closer inspection to complicate that reading without quite resolving it.