It has a classification, a map reference, and a place in the national inventory of ancient sites, but beyond that the details have not yet been made available. In a landscape that contains ringforts, cashels, and the remnants of early medieval farming life, an earthwork could be almost anything: a raised enclosure, a bank and fosse system, a platform mound, or the eroded outline of a structure whose original purpose has long since become ambiguous.

Urlaur itself is perhaps best known locally for the ruins of a Dominican friary founded in the fifteenth century, and the land around it carries the usual layered evidence of centuries of occupation, clearance, and change that characterises much of rural Connacht. Earthworks in this part of Mayo often survive because the land was never intensively ploughed, preserved instead beneath rough grazing where a tractor never had reason to go. Without more specific detail it is not possible to say whether this particular feature is prehistoric, early medieval, or something more recent, and that uncertainty is itself part of what makes it worth noting.