No bank, no ditch, no visible outline survives at the surface. What was once an oval enclosure roughly 38 metres north to south and 26 metres east to west has been levelled entirely, and yet the site remains recorded, studied, and in its own quiet way, legible, at least to the right kind of eye and instrument.

The 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows the earthwork clearly, its southern end sitting adjacent to the shoreline of Lough Derravaragh. That relationship with the water is no longer obvious on the ground because drainage works subsequently lowered the lake level, shifting what had been a lakeshore setting into what now reads simply as pasture on a natural terrace. The monument sits in a cluster of related features: a levelled earthwork 120 metres to the north-west, another 160 metres to the south-east, and a crannóg, an artificial or partially artificial island dwelling of the kind constructed in Irish lakes from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period, lying just 100 metres to the south. The concentration suggests this was once a deliberately occupied landscape, organised around the margins of the lake. By 2005, aerial photography showed nothing. Then, in November 2011, a Digital Globe aerial photograph captured the earthwork as a faint crop mark, the kind of trace that appears when buried features affect how vegetation grows above them, betraying a shape that the land has otherwise swallowed completely.