At thirty-eight metres across and only twenty centimetres high, it is the kind of feature most walkers would cross without registering. What gives it away is the scarp, a slight but distinct edge where the platform meets the ordinary ground level, tracing a full circle and marking out what was once a formal enclosure.

By 1948, when the third edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map was produced, the feature was still legible enough to be recorded as a circular enclosure. In the decades since, the above-ground fabric has continued to erode. What survives today is the platform itself, along with a low bank running roughly east to west through its centre, and a shallow depression to the south of that bank. Circular enclosures of this kind are common across Ireland, ranging from substantial ringforts, which were enclosed farmsteads typically occupied between the early medieval period and the twelfth century or so, to more ambiguous earthworks whose original function is harder to pin down. This one, with its internal bank and depression, suggests some degree of subdivision or internal activity, though the surviving remains are too slight to say much more with confidence.