What makes it easy to miss is precisely what makes it interesting: it is a slight thing, a low sculpted rim rising no more than three-quarters of a metre above the surrounding ground, with a shallow external fosse, or ditch, running around its outer edge. Nothing towers here, nothing announces itself. The whole arrangement is modest enough that a person could walk past it and register only a vaguely uneven field.

The site is an enclosure, an oval roughly sixteen metres across on its northeast to southwest axis and twenty-two metres on its northwest to southeast axis. Enclosures of this kind are among the most common, and most debated, archaeological features in the Irish countryside. They may have served as farmsteads, animal pens, places of ceremonial significance, or some combination of purposes that shifted over centuries of use. The scarped edge, the term for the deliberately cut and shaped slope that defines the boundary here, has a width of just over three metres, and the fosse outside it, while shallow at around twenty centimetres deep, extends to more than eight metres in width. At the northeast, east-southeast, and southwest, gaps in the earthen field boundary that overlies the scarp suggest original entrance points, or at least places where later agricultural activity broke through. That boundary, overgrown with bushes, has partly obscured the monument's upper edge, making the site a palimpsest of different periods of use layered one on top of another. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011.

The interior is level and covered in tall grasses, which in summer can make the slight topographic differences harder to read from within. The best way to appreciate the site's shape is to walk around its perimeter rather than through it, where the scarped edge and the outer fosse become more legible underfoot and to the eye. The gaps in the overgrown boundary at the northeast, east-southeast, and southwest are worth locating, as they offer the clearest views of the original earthwork without the later field boundary complicating the picture.