What makes it quietly arresting is not grandeur but persistence: a monument that failed to appear on the Ordnance Survey's meticulous six-inch maps of 1840, yet showed up clearly enough on the 25-inch edition of 1897, suggesting either that the earlier surveyors missed it or that the landscape had changed enough in the intervening decades to make it legible. Beside it, about 1.8 metres from the outer edge of its fosse, a smaller, low mound sits to the south-east, a probable barrow, which is a burial mound of prehistoric origin, ringed by its own shallow ditch but lacking any outer bank.

The site was formally described by O'Kelly in 1944 as a Type A Earthwork, a category referring to a circular raised platform enclosed by a fosse, which is a defensive or demarcating ditch, with an outer bank beyond. O'Kelly recorded the platform as standing roughly 1.2 metres high, with an overall diameter of about 36.5 metres. The outer bank was already broken in three places at the time of his survey, and no clear entrance could be identified. The smaller adjacent mound, which O'Kelly called a tumulus, measured around 18.3 metres across. Aerial and satellite imagery recorded between 2005 and 2015 confirms both features are still visible, along with a possible external fosse curving from the south-east around to the north, and a linear cropmark intersecting the monument from the west, running on a north-west to south-east axis.

The earthwork sits in ordinary working farmland, and access is not formally managed in the way a scheduled visitor attraction might be. The rush-covered fosse, noted on orthophotographs taken as recently as 2015, is the clearest thing to orient yourself by on the ground; in drier summer months the circular platform becomes more readable from a distance, and the cropmark of the possible outer fosse may become visible in cereal or grass crops. The smaller mound to the south-east is easy to overlook given how denuded both features have become, but knowing to look for a slight rise with its own encircling depression helps. The site sits approximately 70 metres north-west of the Newtown townland boundary and 95 metres north-east of Bottomstown, which gives a sense of just how precisely marginal its location is, edged between parishes in a landscape that has otherwise been thoroughly absorbed into modern agriculture.