No earthwork survives above the surface, and the site appeared on neither the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840 nor the revised edition of 1904 to 1905. Its existence only came to light through an aerial photograph taken on 3 August 1996, on which the buried remains showed up as a cropmark, the faint differential in how crops grow above disturbed or compacted ground that can betray the outline of a structure lost to the soil entirely.

What the aerial photograph revealed is more complex than a simple ring. A concentric outer enclosure wraps around the western half of the inner enclosure, broadening out towards the east in a way that gives the whole plan an irregular, asymmetric quality. Within this outer ring, a radial cropmark cuts across the north-western quadrant, suggesting some kind of internal division or boundary feature, and there are further hints of subdivision in the south-eastern sector. A field boundary running north to south sits immediately to the west of the outer enclosure, and a second boundary, now levelled and gone, once ran east to west along the southern edge. A second enclosure of the same broad type lies roughly a hundred metres to the north-east, suggesting this quiet stretch of gently south-facing slope once carried more organised activity than the current tillage fields would imply. Enclosures of this kind in Ireland are often associated with early medieval settlement or farming activity, though without excavation it is not possible to say what function this particular site served or when it was in use.