The outline is still legible, an earthen bank running around a space about thirty-two metres across at its widest, broken in places and worn low, but unmistakably deliberate. An entrance gap, more than eight metres wide, opens at the south-southeast, and on the south-western side a shallow fosse, the external ditch that once accompanied the bank, can still be traced.

This kind of embanked enclosure is a feature of the Irish early medieval landscape, though the term covers a range of possible functions, from enclosed farmsteads to spaces with ceremonial or communal uses that archaeologists continue to debate. The bank here is modest by any measure, standing less than a metre high internally in places and reduced in its north-western arc to little more than a low scarp. The fosse, where it survives, is shallow. What it lacks in drama it makes up for in company: roughly a hundred metres to the south-west lies a rath, a ringfort of the kind that served as a defended homestead during the early medieval period, typically between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Whether the two were contemporary or sequential, and what relationship, if any, existed between the people who used them, is the kind of question the ground alone cannot answer.