It was aerial photography that first made the form legible, a Government of Ireland survey flight in April 1974 capturing the outline clearly from above when the ground offered little hint of what it contained. That gap between what the eye can see at ground level and what emerges from altitude is itself part of what makes sites like this quietly compelling.

When an inspection was carried out in 1994, the monument was recorded as an enclosure roughly fifty metres in diameter, defined by a low earthen bank some three to four metres wide and about half a metre high, with a shallow external fosse, or ditch, of similar width running around the outside. An enclosure of this type, a roughly circular area bounded by a bank and ditch, is a form found widely across Ireland and associated with a long span of use, from later prehistoric settlement to early medieval farmsteads. At the southern arc, the outer fosse levels out to meet the roadside, and remnants of an external bank survive along the south-east sector. By the time of the 1994 visit, the interior had already been shallow ploughed and planted with conifers, and a new forest access road had been constructed just to the south-east of the monument. The ploughing and planting had compromised the site, and the surrounding plantation made it inaccessible to anyone on foot.