There is no obvious gateway, no ditch, and no signpost. To a passing eye it might register only as an uneven patch of pasture, yet the low earthen bank that traces its perimeter, roughly 45 metres north to south and 37 metres east to west, marks it out as something deliberately made.

The enclosure is defined by a degraded earthen bank, around three metres wide, with an external face of stone that still peeks through the turf in places. The interior of the bank stands between 0.4 and 0.9 metres above the enclosed ground, while the exterior face rises somewhat higher, between 0.9 and 1.2 metres, suggesting the structure was designed to present a modest but deliberate boundary to the outside world. The absence of a fosse, the term for the ditch that typically accompanies such a bank and would have supplied the earth for its construction, is one of the features that makes this enclosure a little difficult to read. Embanked enclosures of this subcircular form appear across Ireland in a range of periods and contexts, from early medieval ringforts used as farmsteads or defended homesteads, to ecclesiastical enclosures marking the boundaries of early church sites. The placename Chapel offers a suggestive hint about the latter possibility, though the ground itself keeps its own counsel. A hedge now follows the southern and north-western perimeter, quietly completing the outline where the earthwork has lost definition.