Though the earthwork has been levelled by tillage, a raised roughly circular platform, measuring approximately 35 metres north to south and 34.6 metres east to west, persists as a low scarp less than a metre high. That the ground surface within it is notably stonier than the surrounding soil is one of the quiet signs that something deliberate once stood here.

The site belongs to a category of monument found across Ireland, generally interpreted as the remains of a ringfort or enclosed farmstead, the kind of settlement that was widespread during the early medieval period. A fosse, meaning a defensive or boundary ditch dug around the perimeter, would have been a common feature of such enclosures. Aerial photography taken in August 1996 revealed the site as a cropmark, a phenomenon that occurs when buried features such as filled ditches affect the growth of crops above them, making them legible from the air even when invisible at ground level. That evidence strongly suggests this enclosure once had exactly such a fosse, now silted and compressed beneath the soil. The surrounding field was under corn at the time it was recorded, the crop recently cut, leaving the stony raised platform exposed and readable in the low light that follows harvest.