What makes it peculiar is not grandeur but persistence: a ring of trees marking the outline of an enclosure roughly 29 metres across, sitting in open pasture just 105 metres east of the boundary with the neighbouring townland of Ballinscoola, visible from aerial imagery across multiple decades without any obvious explanation attached to it.

The enclosure first appears in the cartographic record on the 1897 edition of the Ordnance Survey Ireland 25-inch map, where it is drawn as a roughly circular feature with a triangulation station, one of the survey markers used to fix precise elevations and positions across the country, noted inside it at a spot height of 322 feet above ordnance datum. Whether the earthwork itself is older than the survey, and was simply put to practical use when the trigonometric network was being established, is not recorded. The OSi 6-inch map also shows the trig station, and surveyors compiled by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly noted in 2020 that the earthwork may be related to that survey infrastructure, though the connection remains unconfirmed. Enclosures of this kind in Irish landscapes can be prehistoric ringforts, a ringfort being a circular earthen bank and ditch that once enclosed a farmstead, though no such identification has been formally attached to this site based on the available record.

The site sits in working pasture, so access depends on landowner permission. Those who do make their way up the hillock will find the circular outline most legible from a slight distance, where the tree-line, which has been consistently visible in aerial photographs taken between 2005 and 2018, gives the form its clearest definition. On the ground the earthwork reads as a low, grassy bank following the same roughly circular plan recorded by the nineteenth-century surveyors. The approach from the Ballinscoola boundary side keeps the slope gentle. Aerial imagery, including Google Earth orthophotos from June 2018, offers a useful reference point before visiting.