Stand at the site today and the ground gives nothing away; the grass is unremarkable, the surface undisturbed in any obvious sense. What is known about this feature exists almost entirely in the medium of aerial photography, where differences in soil moisture and crop growth can reveal the buried outlines of structures that have long since vanished from view at ground level.

Aerial photographs, taken under reference codes OS 1 3311-2 and ACP V203/114-5, show earthworks lying to the north and west of the nearby church at Kilmacowen. That church, recorded separately, provides the only real landmark by which the earthworks can be located and understood in relation to their surroundings. The association between earthworks and ecclesiastical sites is not unusual in Ireland; early medieval settlements frequently developed around churches, and the enclosures, boundaries, and ancillary features of those communities can linger underground long after every above-ground trace has gone. Whether these particular earthworks relate to such a settlement, or to something else entirely, the available record does not say. There are, as the record plainly states, no visible surface remains.