On a south-facing slope, a low earthen bank traces out a roughly rectangular space, measuring around 27 metres along its longer axis and 16.5 metres across. The bank itself is modest, rising less than a metre on either side, with a width of about 2 metres and a clearly defined entrance gap of nearly 3 metres facing south-east. Notably, there is no fosse, the defensive ditch that typically accompanies an enclosure bank, which makes it harder to read this as a straightforwardly defensive structure.

What makes the site quietly puzzling is the matter of its shape, or rather its two recorded shapes. When surveyors working on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded the site in 1837, they depicted the enclosure as circular. The same circular outline appears again on the 1940 edition of the same map series. Yet on the ground, the enclosed area is rectangular. Whether the earlier surveyors were working from incomplete visibility, interpreting a partially collapsed bank, or simply imposing a familiar form onto something less legible, is not clear. Enclosures of this general type appear across Ireland in considerable variety, serving as farmsteads, animal pounds, burial grounds, or ceremonial spaces depending on their date and context, and without excavation the function of this particular example remains open.