It is not dramatic, but it is deliberate: a raised platform roughly eleven and a half metres across and a little over a metre above the surrounding ground, its edges defined by a scarp and the remnant of an earthen bank that still traces much of the perimeter.

This kind of earthwork is broadly classed as an enclosure, a term covering a wide range of enclosed spaces defined by banks, ditches, or scarps, and used across Irish prehistory and the early medieval period for purposes that varied from settlement to ritual to livestock management. What survives here is a circular form with a low bank, between two and three metres wide, running along the top of the scarp at the west-southwest, northwest to northeast, and southeast to south-southeast. Part of the southwest arc has been disturbed, leaving grass-covered upcast, the loose soil thrown up during whatever digging or disturbance affected that section. A short stretch of the southern arc has been cut across by the wall of an old east-west road, which tells its own small story about how later generations moved through and reshaped a landscape already layered with older features.

The setting beside the bay, in level ground that would have been attractive for early occupation, gives the site a quiet logic even if its original purpose remains unrecorded. It sits in a part of west Cork that has accumulated a great deal of history in a small area, from copper mining to early Christian remains, and this modest earthwork is easy to pass without a second glance.