What the Ordnance Survey recorded in 1839 as an embanked enclosure, roughly forty to forty-five metres in external diameter, had been reinterpreted by the 1924 edition of the same map as a small quarry of around twenty-five to thirty metres across. Whether the feature was genuinely mistaken for something industrial, or whether it had simply degraded enough by that point to suggest extraction rather than enclosure, is not recorded. Today, standing in the cereal field that covers the site, there is nothing visible at all.

Embanked enclosures of this kind are broadly understood as enclosed spaces defined by an earthen bank, sometimes accompanied by a fosse, which is an external ditch, and are found across Ireland in a variety of agricultural and ritual contexts. This particular example sits on a sloping hillside with a north-south stream running approximately a hundred and twenty-five metres to the west, a positioning not unlike many early medieval or prehistoric enclosures that favoured elevated, well-drained ground near water. The only evidence that survives in any legible form comes from aerial photography, which reveals a faint cropmark of around thirty metres in diameter, the outline of a slight single fosse running from the south-east, around the west, and up to the north. Cropmarks form when buried features affect the growth of crops above them, with ditches tending to produce lusher, darker growth and compacted banks the opposite, making aerial survey one of the few tools capable of recovering what ground-level observation cannot.