A modern house and its garden occupy the interior of what was once an enclosure, the kind of roughly circular earthwork, defined by a raised bank and an outer fosse or ditch, that appears throughout the Irish landscape in various forms from the early medieval period onward. Most of what defined this one as a monument has been levelled. What remains is a drop in the ground, and the view over the lough.

The enclosure does not appear on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map from 1837, which is itself a curious detail, since that survey was remarkably thorough and tended to record earthworks of this kind. By the 1913 edition it had been marked, depicted as a hachured arc sweeping from north-north-east around to south-south-west. A report from 1990 described a low bank of earth and stone with an external fosse still legible on the north-east to south-south-east side. Within roughly a decade or so of that record being made, those features had been levelled. Test excavations carried out in 2004 by Delaney across the south-east half of the enclosure produced no archaeological features or artefacts, leaving the original purpose and date of the monument unresolved.