The feature is a D-shaped platform, with a straight side running roughly seventy metres north to south and projecting about forty metres westward, the whole thing defined by a scarp, a sloping earthen edge, rising to around 0.8 metres. That modest height is enough to mark it out from the surrounding pasture, though the drainage channel and modern field boundary along its eastern side have long since absorbed whatever the enclosure may once have continued into that direction. There is no visible surface trace of it extending into the field to the east.

Earthworks of this kind are not uncommon in Cork, but they are rarely straightforward to interpret. The D-shape is notable; circular or oval platforms often indicate the levelled remains of a ringfort, the type of enclosed farmstead that was the dominant form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland. The straight eastern side here, however, sets this example apart from that familiar form, suggesting either deliberate design for a different purpose, later modification, or simple survival bias, where only part of an original circuit has endured. The interior of the southern half was recorded as inaccessible due to overgrowth, with the northern portion having been cleared of trees and scrub at the time of survey.