The ground holds a shape that grass and scrub have done their best to obscure, a roughly D-shaped enclosure measuring around 38 metres along its south-eastern side, defined by a low scarp and a narrow external drain with an unusually sharp profile. That drain is likely a fosse, the defensive ditch commonly dug around early medieval and later enclosed settlements in Ireland, though here it appears to have been recut at some point, which means the feature was maintained or modified long after its original construction. The interior is level and unremarkable to the eye, but the geometry underfoot is the thing worth attending to.

What makes the site quietly puzzling is the gap between what was recorded and what now exists. When the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map was drawn in 1839, the enclosure appeared as a circle roughly 38 metres in diameter, with a townland boundary running north-west to south-east just outside its north-eastern edge. That a townland boundary, one of those ancient administrative lines that often respect far older features in the landscape, should run immediately outside the enclosure suggests the earthwork was already considered a fixed point of reference when the boundary was being observed or formalised. Today the shape on the ground reads as a D rather than a full circle, a discrepancy that might reflect later disturbance, the gradual softening of one arc, or simply the difference between a surveyor's generalisation and the messier reality. A stream runs north to south about 40 metres to the west, and roughly 500 metres further in the same direction lies a separate moated site, a type of enclosed homestead associated mainly with Anglo-Norman settlement in the medieval period. The proximity of two distinct enclosure types within the same stretch of low-lying ground hints at a landscape that was organised and re-organised over a long span of time, even if the record does not yet say precisely how or when.