The platform is roughly oval in shape, about 16.5 metres across, and is defined by a scarp, meaning a sharp slope or drop at its edge, along with a wide outer fosse, which is simply a ditch encircling the raised ground. What makes it quietly compelling is precisely this combination of ordinariness and persistence: centuries of agricultural activity have reshaped the land around it, yet the form holds.

The site was recorded as early as the first Ordnance Survey mapping of Ireland. The 1840 six-inch edition shows it as a raised sub-circular platform defined by a scarp, while the more detailed 1897 twenty-five-inch edition captures the oval shape more precisely, along with the wide outer fosse. These successive surveys give a sense of how the feature was understood, and how little it changed between those two moments of recording. Earthworks of this general type in Ireland can represent the remains of ringforts, enclosures, or other early medieval or prehistoric activity, though the notes compiled by Fiona Rooney, uploaded to the record in September 2021, do not assign a specific function or date to this one. The site lies 255 metres west of the townland boundary with Knocklary.

The most instructive views of this earthwork come not from standing beside it but from above. An oblique aerial photograph taken in October 2002 as part of the Archaeological Survey Ireland Aerial Photographic collection, along with Google Earth imagery captured between 2011 and 2013, shows the outline of the platform picked out by a wide rush-filled fosse, the rushes thriving in the wetter ground of the old ditch. On the ground, in reclaimed pasture, the feature could easily be mistaken for a natural rise or a quirk of drainage. The aerial perspective reveals the geometry that centuries of farming have softened but not erased.