Its defining feature was a scarp, the ground dropping away particularly sharply on the southwestern side, with an external bank running from northeast to southwest. By the time an aerial photograph was taken in June 1973, most of it was gone, replaced by the raw geometry of a quarry that had been actively cutting into the hilltop since at least the late 1950s.

What survives is a long ridge of upcast, the spoil thrown up during quarrying, running for 52 metres along the northern edge of the quarry. It stands about 1.5 metres above the exterior ground level to the north and is roughly 3.3 metres wide. According to the landowner, this mound incorporates what remains of the northern edge of the original monument, making it both the record of destruction and the sole physical remnant of the enclosure itself. The 1904 Ordnance Survey maps, both the 6-inch and 25-inch editions, preserve the clearest picture of what existed before the quarry took the rest. The site sits in a landscape with older company: Temple-Etney graveyard lies about 350 metres to the northwest, visible from the hill, and roughly 500 metres to the southeast stands Ballyboe motte, the raised earthen mound that would once have carried a timber fortification of the Norman period. The enclosure predates any of these associations, though its precise origins remain unestablished.