It is roughly rectangular, measuring about 32 metres east to west and 20 metres north to south, and it sits on a gentle east-facing slope. What marks it out is a wide, low bank of earth and stone running around much of its perimeter, broad enough at over four and a half metres across to suggest some deliberate effort, yet barely 30 centimetres high today. No ditch, or fosse, survives at ground level alongside it, which is one reason the site resists easy classification. Enclosures of this general kind turn up across Ireland in many forms and from many periods, associated with everything from early medieval farmsteads to prehistoric ritual activity, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say which tradition a particular example belongs to.

Along the south-eastern to south-western arc, the earthen bank disappears entirely. In its place, a drystone field wall follows the edge of the site, with a slight scarp, a low step in the ground, just visible beneath it. This detail hints that the modern field boundary may have been built along the line of the older enclosure, cannibalising its material or simply following the convenient ridge it left behind. The original entrance, wherever it once lay, is no longer recognisable on the ground. What remains is a form without a clear function, a boundary that has outlasted any memory of why it was drawn.