What looks at a glance like a random stand of trees is actually a sub-circular enclosure roughly 22 to 24 metres across, bounded by an earthen bank and a narrow, shallow fosse, with a gap at the northwest that may once have served as an entrance. It does not appear on any edition of the Ordnance Survey maps as an antiquity, which is part of what makes it so easy to overlook.

By the time the 1875 Ordnance Survey edition was produced, the site appeared as a circular grove of trees, though it had been entirely absent from the earlier 1837 six-inch mapping. This timing points toward a tree ring, a feature associated with designed landscapes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when landowners would plant ornamental or shelter belts of trees in deliberate geometric arrangements, often on slight elevations to create a visual accent in otherwise flat terrain. Barratogher House lies about 400 metres to the west, and the ring may well have been planted as part of its wider estate landscaping. The complication is that the earthen bank and fosse underlying the planting are consistent with a ringfort, an early medieval enclosed settlement type that was once extremely common across Ireland. The presence of tree stumps alongside dumps of field clearance stones suggests that the site may have begun as a ringfort and was later reused as the base for a designed planting, which would not have been unusual. Landowners across Ireland frequently incorporated older earthworks into their grounds, whether they recognised what they were or simply found the raised ground convenient.

The bank is best preserved along the eastern to south-western arc, and the interior rises gently toward the centre beneath the overgrowth. The site is on private farmland, and the surrounding low-lying ground is marshy, so the approach would be difficult in wet conditions. From the low rise it occupies, there are open views in all directions across the midland plain.