What makes it worth a second look is the gap between what is visible now and what once existed. The site measures thirty metres across and is defined by an earthen bank, the kind of enclosing structure associated with a ringfort, which was the most common form of early medieval rural settlement in Ireland, typically used as a defended farmstead. That bank is still legible, rising up to three metres on its outer face. But the fosse, the defensive ditch that would originally have accompanied it, has largely vanished from view at ground level.

A field observation made in 1939 recorded the fosse running along the south-east to south-west arc of the enclosure, with a width at the top of around four and a half metres and an internal depth of roughly one and a half metres. Decades later, no trace of it is visible. The bank itself varies in width between six and nine metres, and the entrance, four and a half metres wide, faces north-west, opening onto the downslope side of the ridge. That positioning is characteristic rather than incidental; placing an entrance on the downhill face gives a clear view of approaching terrain. The site occupies a north-facing slope of a short east-west ridge, with a spur running northward about five hundred metres to the east, a topographic setting that would have offered both visibility and a degree of natural shelter.

What the 1939 record preserves is a snapshot of a feature that the landscape has since absorbed. The fosse dimensions noted then suggest a substantial original construction, and their disappearance in the intervening decades is a reminder of how quickly earthworks can be softened and obscured by agriculture, grazing, and simple time. The bank alone now carries the outline of the enclosure, its grass covering giving little away about the activity that once took place within.