Recorded on the 1904 Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a hachured mound, a symbol used to indicate a raised earthwork of some kind, it measures roughly fifteen metres in diameter and occupies scrubland terrain that does little to give away its purpose or age.

When the archaeologist S. Ó Nualláin examined it in 1984, the description he offered was notably cautious: a bank approximately fourteen metres across, faced with stone, but of uncertain nature. That phrase, "nature uncertain", carries considerable weight in archaeological recording. It means the feature does not fit neatly into the established categories, whether ringfort, burial monument, or field enclosure, that tend to organise how prehistoric and early historic remains in Ireland are understood and catalogued. The stone-facing is a detail worth pausing on. Earthen banks reinforced or revetted with stone appear in various contexts across Irish archaeology, from the enclosing walls of ringforts to the kerbing around burial mounds, but without excavation the function here remains genuinely open. Adding to the puzzle, a separate circular enclosure lies roughly a hundred metres to the west, raising the possibility that the two features are related, though what that relationship might be is unknown.