The banks, ridges, and hollows form no discernible pattern, and a rectangular enclosure occupies the higher ground nearby. What makes the site quietly strange is precisely how little it gives away: neither the 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map nor the revised 1913 twenty-five-inch edition records it at all, which means that for the better part of two centuries of systematic Irish cartography, this collection of earthworks went entirely unacknowledged.

When the monument was formally described in 1981, surveyors could say only that the earthworks consisted of low banks, ridges, and hollows with no clear arrangement. The rectangular enclosure set apart on higher ground offers a slight structural hint, since enclosed areas of this kind often served as farmsteads, ecclesiastical sites, or places of local assembly in early medieval Ireland, though without excavation it is impossible to assign this one to any particular use or period. The site sits on rising ground overlooking low-lying pasture, the kind of position that tends to favour visibility and drainage, two priorities shared by builders across many different eras. Today the earthworks remain legible on aerial photography, which is often how such low-profile sites first come to wider attention, their outlines thrown into relief by the angle of light or the contrast of crop growth above buried features.