Locals call it 'The Turret', a name that carries an air of defended height, of watching, though what survives today is a modest bank of earth and gravel sitting quietly on the south side of the Inny estuary. The early Ordnance Survey mapped it as a circular enclosure, which is itself a slight puzzle, because what you find on the ground is anything but circular. The interior depression is roughly square, measuring about 9.9 metres north to south and 10.1 metres east to west, and the flat-topped bank that rings it rises less than a metre above the surrounding field while dropping a full two metres to the interior floor. That pronounced inward fall gives the site an oddly contained, pit-like quality.

The details reward close attention. A gap of just over a metre in the northeast section of the bank may represent an original entrance, oriented in the same direction as the long view the site commands, up the Inny river valley toward the northeast. Inside, near the centre, sits a low stony platform, overgrown but still legible, roughly 2.3 metres by 2 metres. At the southeastern edge there is a shallow opening in the bank, inaccessible now, at least two metres wide and about 30 centimetres high, which appears to continue further in that direction. Whether this is a collapsed souterrain (an underground stone-lined passage, commonly associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland) or simply a feature of the bank's construction is not clear. The name 'The Turret' may reflect a folk memory of some upstanding structure here, or simply the local instinct to grant a commanding position its due title.