On the north-western side, the ground dips into a sunken, oblong curvilinear depression roughly 24 metres long and 8 metres wide, its edges defined by a low scarp. To the south-east, a smaller D-shaped hollow, about 12 metres across, sits poorly drained and slightly sunken, its own scarp barely half a metre deep. Both fragments have been largely levelled out by agricultural improvement and read, to the casual eye, as nothing more than natural ground variation in the surrounding grassland.

The first edition six-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1840 tells a different story. At that earlier date, before the road had done its full damage, the feature is recorded as a coherent oval roughly 40 metres north to south and 37 metres east to west, already cut by the road but still legible as a single form. Enclosures of this general type, circular or oval earthworks defined by a bank or scarp, are common across Ireland and are most frequently associated with early medieval settlement, often serving as the boundary of a ringfort or a related domestic and agricultural compound. Whether that is the origin here is not firmly established, and the site's current condition, heavily levelled and seemingly naturalised, makes any confident interpretation difficult. What the 1840 map preserves, then, is essentially a ghost outline, a shape that the landscape has since done its best to forget.