It does not survive as a raised earthwork or a visible boundary. It exists, for now, primarily as a cropmark, a faint signature left in vegetation that betrays the buried archaeology beneath, readable only from the air.

The enclosure measures roughly 45 metres on its northeast to southwest axis and 35 metres northwest to southeast, and it is defined by what was once a fosse, a ditch cut into the ground to delineate the enclosed space within. Enclosures of this kind are among the most common monument types in the Irish landscape, associated broadly with early medieval settlement, though without excavation it is impossible to say more about the date or function of this particular example. What makes the Brideswell Little site quietly notable is the fragility of its survival. The fosse is legible in the cropmark only along a portion of the circuit, from roughly west-southwest around through north to southeast. The rest appears to have been quarried away at some point, removing the physical evidence from the ground entirely. The site was first identified by Simon Dowling, who spotted it on Google Earth imagery captured on 14 July 2018, a reminder that aerial and satellite observation continues to reveal monuments that surface survey alone would miss.