From satellite imagery taken between 2011 and 2013, a roughly circular area enclosed by a fosse, that is, a defensive ditch dug around an earthwork to define and protect it, resolves itself out of the surrounding grassland with quiet clarity. By April 2021, it had softened further into a cropmark, the kind of ghostly impression that appears when buried or disturbed ground causes overlying vegetation to grow differently from its neighbours. Even that trace is now interrupted, cut across at its northern and southern edges by a field boundary running north to south.

The earthwork was recorded as early as the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map in 1840, where it appears as an oval shape in the landscape. By the time the more detailed twenty-five-inch edition was produced in 1897, surveyors were able to note its dimensions with greater precision, roughly 40 metres north to south and 38 metres northwest to southeast, defined by a scarp, meaning a steep slope or drop at its edges that would once have marked a clear boundary between the raised interior and the ground beyond. What purpose the enclosure originally served is not recorded in the available notes; such earthworks in the Irish midlands and west might variously have served as ringforts, enclosures for livestock, or features associated with earlier settlement, but no specific function is attributed to this one in the documentation compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick in August 2021.

The site sits in pasture approximately 150 metres west of the watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Effin, and around 100 metres east of a railway line. There is no public access point noted, and the monument itself offers little to the naked eye at ground level, the scarp having diminished considerably over time. The most useful view remains aerial: the Digital Globe orthoimage from 2011 to 2013 shows the fosse more legibly than anything visible on foot today. Anyone with an interest in how landscape archaeology is actually practised, less about dramatic discovery and more about comparing maps across 180 years and watching features gradually fade, will find the documentation of this site a useful illustration of that slow process.