The same earthwork, recorded in two different surveys, shifted in character between the two: first noted as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp, it had become, by the later map, a sunken sub-circular feature. Whether that shift reflects genuine physical change over the intervening decades, or simply a difference in how two sets of surveyors interpreted an ambiguous lump of ground, is not something the record resolves. That kind of quiet uncertainty is part of what makes the site interesting.

The earthwork sits in pasture roughly 160 metres north of the townland boundary with Ballyfauskeen. The 1840 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, one of the most systematic landscape records ever produced for Ireland, shows it as a raised oval defined by a scarp, already intersected at its south-east and northern edges by a field boundary that post-dates 1700. By the time of the 1897 twenty-five-inch edition, the feature is described as a sunken sub-circular shape, approximately 18 metres north to south and 22 metres east to west, now incorporated into a post-1700 field boundary and further cut through by boundaries running north-west to south-east. In other words, generations of agricultural reorganisation had been progressively absorbed into the earthwork, folding it into a working landscape that seemed to neither preserve nor entirely erase it. The record was compiled by Fiona Rooney and uploaded to the national inventory in November 2021.

On satellite imagery taken between 2011 and 2013, the earthwork is still legible: a circular area enclosed by a tree-lined bank, the kind of feature that reads more clearly from above than at ground level. Visiting on foot, the enclosure is in active pasture, so access depends on the usual courtesies of approaching farmland, and the ground underfoot is likely to be soft for much of the year. The tree-lined bank is probably the most reliable marker from within the field. Google Earth orthoimages offer a useful reference before any visit, allowing you to orientate yourself relative to the field boundaries that now bisect the site.