The feature is classified as a tree-ring, a type of designed earthwork typically intended to shelter and frame a planting of trees around a house or other structure. In a landscape of gently undulating pasture and tillage on a gradual north-facing slope, the enclosure reads less as a fortification than as a considered arrangement of the ground itself.

The tower house it surrounds is a four-storey structure with attic, built from roughly coursed limestone rubble with cut and dressed quoins at the corners. Those dressed corner stones have been robbed out at the south-west and north-west angles to a height of 3.2 metres, which suggests the building was quarried for material at some point after it fell out of use, a common fate for rural tower houses once their original owners departed or declined. What makes the wider site particularly interesting is a discrepancy visible in historical mapping. The first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840 shows the tower house enclosed within a rectangular boundary. By the 1903 edition, that same enclosure has become curving. Whether this reflects a deliberate redesign of the landscape in the intervening decades, a gradual softening of earlier earthworks, or simply a difference in how surveyors interpreted what they saw on the ground, the maps leave the question open. The shift from angular to curved is the kind of detail that tends to get smoothed over in the broader story of any place, but here it survives in the cartographic record as a small, nagging inconsistency worth pausing over.