What was once a D-shaped enclosure, roughly 23 metres north to south and 31 metres east to west, has been levelled so thoroughly that by the time aerial survey imagery was captured between 2011 and 2013, no surface remains could be detected at all. Only in a Google Earth image from June 2018 does a faint cropmark betray its outline, the buried archaeology briefly made legible by the stress of a dry season on the grass above it.

The site sits immediately north of the boundary between the townlands of Ballinlyna and Clovers, with a standing stone lying just to its west. The Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1840 recorded it as a raised circular area defined by a scarp, the edge of an earthwork still visible to those who surveyed the landscape on foot. By the time the 25-inch map was produced in 1897, the detail was sharper: a bank running from the south-west around through north to the south-east, with gaps at the north-west and north-east, and the southern edge defined not by a man-made bank but by the natural scarp of a watercourse cutting north-east to south-west. That watercourse effectively formed one wall of the enclosure, which is where the "cliff-edge" quality of the site becomes legible. A note from 1931, recorded by O'Shaughnessy and Carroll, described the monument as "two moats or lisses with souterrains", a description worth unpacking: a lios is the Irish term for a ringfort-type enclosure, while a souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage, often associated with early medieval settlement and used for storage or refuge. The mention of two such features suggests a more complex site than a single enclosure.

For anyone making their way out to Ballinlyna, this is a place where patience and timing matter more than access. The pasture is unremarkable underfoot, and without the benefit of a drone or a printout of the 2018 cropmark image, the site offers little to the casual eye. The standing stone to the west at least provides a physical landmark. The best time to look for cropmarks in the field is during a prolonged dry spell in summer, when differential soil moisture above buried features can reveal outlines invisible at other times of year. The 1840 and 1897 Ordnance Survey maps, both freely available through the OSi historical map viewer, remain the most vivid record of what once stood here.