That multiplicity is what gives the site its quiet strangeness. Earthwork complexes of this kind are not uncommon in the Irish midlands and south, but a cluster of this density, still legible in the grass and soil, suggests a place that was once organised, subdivided, and used in ways that have long since been forgotten.

The earthworks were recorded in detail and found to correspond, at least in part, to features already marked on the second edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1906, meaning the banks and scarps were conspicuous enough to be noted by cartographers over a century ago. A large central area, roughly 90 metres east to west and 43.5 metres north to south, is defined by a bank along its western edge and by scarps, that is, steep earthen slopes cut or worn into the ground surface, along its northern and eastern edges. Several of the individual enclosures cluster around this central space: one abuts its western edge, another its eastern, with a third sitting between them. One of these, a roughly square enclosure measuring about 41 metres across, has a particularly pronounced scarp on its eastern side, nearly a metre high, which steepens noticeably as it runs east. A farm road has cut across the southern portion of the complex, removing some of what was once there, and a post and wire fence now runs along the eastern margin, marking the boundary between the archaeological landscape and the working one.