It would be easy to walk across it without noticing anything at all. The ground rises by just ten centimetres above the surrounding field, a semicircular platform roughly twenty metres across its straight edge and projecting sixteen metres to the south-east. That faint elevation is the only physical trace of a bank that was still substantial enough to be mapped in detail in 1842.

The Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of that year recorded the feature as a hachured semicircular arc of bank, a cartographic convention used to show an earthen ridge with sloping sides. At that point the structure abutted the townland boundary to the north-west, suggesting it may have had a boundary function at some earlier period, or simply that later administrative lines were drawn with reference to older features already in the landscape. At some point between that first mapping and the present, the bank was levelled, leaving only the slightly raised, grass-covered platform that survives today. What the earthwork originally was, and when it was constructed, is not recorded.