That form alone sets it apart from the more familiar circular or rectangular enclosures found across rural Ireland, and it would be easy to walk past without realising the ground beneath your feet has been deliberately shaped, probably over a very long time, for the purpose of burying the dead.

The enclosure is defined by an earthen bank, still reasonably well preserved on most sides, measuring roughly 24 metres north to south and 23 metres east to west internally. The bank itself is substantial, between 4 and 6 metres wide at its base, and considerably more imposing when viewed from outside, where it rises to around 5 metres, compared with a much more modest 0.4 to 1.2 metres on the interior. That asymmetry, a low internal face and a tall external one, is a detail worth pausing over; it gives the enclosure something of the character of a boundary meant to be seen and respected from without. The southern to western portion of the bank has been cut and levelled for about 14 metres where farm buildings were later put up, and a fieldbank runs immediately to the east in a roughly north-north-east to south-south-west direction. By the time the Ordnance Survey mapped the area in 1939, the site was already recorded simply as a burial ground marked disused, suggesting its active use had ended well before living memory even then.