It is a modest thing on its own terms: a roughly rectangular area measuring about 6.2 metres north to south and 7.2 metres east to west, bounded by a low earthen bank no more than 0.4 metres high, with a shallow external fosse, or ditch, running around it. The interior tilts downward to the north. What gives the site an extra layer of interest is not the small enclosure itself but what aerial photography later revealed around it: the whole structure sits within the north-western quadrant of a much larger, roughly circular enclosure approximately 100 metres in diameter, invisible on the ground but traceable from the air.

The larger enclosure carries a possible echo in local place-name memory. A 1934 publication by Bowman noted that the townland carried a subdivision name, Cnoc na Rátha, meaning hill of the fort, yet at the time no fort was known to exist on the hill. A ráth is a type of early medieval enclosed settlement, typically a raised earthen ringfort used as a farmstead, and the place-name had long outlasted any visible trace of what it described. The aerial photograph, referenced in the Cork archaeological inventory, may finally supply the physical counterpart to that centuries-old name. The smaller enclosure nested within it adds another question: whether it represents a subdivision of the larger feature, a later insertion, or something else entirely remains open.