Measuring roughly 21 metres northwest to southeast and 9 metres northeast to southwest, it is defined on one side by a drainage channel and on the other by a natural scarp, and its outline is traceable today mainly because a line of bushes has grown along its edge. What makes it quietly puzzling is not so much what it is, but what used to surround it: until relatively modern times, this earthwork sat on the southern shoreline of Ash Hill Lough, a lake that has since been drained entirely and replaced with coniferous plantation.

The platform appears on the Cassini edition of the Ordnance Survey Ireland six-inch map, but is entirely absent from the 1840 edition of the same series, which is a detail that complicates any straightforward reading of its age. Its absence from the earlier survey does not conclusively rule out an older origin; early mapmakers were selective, and low-profile earthworks on private demesne land were often omitted. The site lies on what were formerly the demesne lands of Ash Hill Towers, a country house situated about 330 metres to the southwest. Whether the earthwork has any relationship to that estate, or whether it predates it entirely, remains unresolved. The question of antiquity is noted openly in the survey compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick, uploaded in August 2021, and no firm conclusion is offered.

The site sits immediately south of the forestry plantation that now covers the bed of the former lough, so the approach is through working farmland and the margins of commercial woodland. There is no formal access or signposting, and the earthwork is not a scheduled monument with visitor infrastructure of any kind. Its outline is most clearly read from aerial imagery, particularly the Digital Globe orthoimages taken between 2011 and 2013, or via Google Earth, where the curve of bushes marking its edge is visible against the surrounding pasture. On the ground, the scarp and drainage channel give the platform its shape, but the feature is subtle enough that it would be easy to walk past without knowing what to look for.