Measuring roughly 52 metres northwest to southeast and 19 metres northeast to southwest, it is modest in scale but distinct enough in form to raise the obvious question of what it was originally built for and by whom.

The site sits in pasture about 80 metres west of the townland boundary with Mortlestown, with a separate earthwork recorded a further 80 metres to the southwest. The 1997 absence from the earlier map suggests either that the feature was not considered significant by the original surveyors, or that it was less visible then than it later became. In 1995, archaeologist Celie O'Rahilly monitored excavations nearby under licence, after a development encroached on the eastern side of what the record describes as a platform enclosure, a raised, levelled area typically associated with a range of uses from settlement to ceremonial activity. The monitoring summary was brief: nothing of archaeological interest was noted. More recently, satellite imagery taken between 2011 and 2013 shows the outline of a rectangular area defined by a tree-lined bank, and rectilinear cropmarks adjacent to the monument have been interpreted as possible drainage channels linked to land reclamation rather than to the enclosure itself.

The site is on private agricultural land, so access would require the landowner's permission. For those interested in how such features read from above, the Google Earth orthoimages referenced in the National Monuments Service record offer a clearer impression of the platform's shape than anything visible from ground level. The tree-lined bank is the most legible element on aerial views, and the surrounding cropmarks are easiest to read in dry summer conditions when soil moisture differences become visible through grass cover. The record was compiled by Fiona Rooney and uploaded in August 2021.