The ground gives it away only on close inspection: a low rise in the pasture, a shallow depression running along the outside edge, and on the eastern side, a stone-faced earthen bank still standing roughly a metre high. Together these traces describe a roughly rectangular enclosure, about fifty metres north to south and forty metres east to west, with a level interior that suggests deliberate shaping rather than accident of terrain.

What makes this site particularly interesting is the way cartographic history has quietly recorded its fading. The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 showed the full subrectangular outline, marked with hachures indicating an earthwork of some definition. By 1902 and again in 1934, the western side had disappeared from the maps entirely, either robbed out, ploughed away, or simply too degraded to record with confidence. The eastern bank survived, incorporated into a field boundary as so many ancient earthworks have been, which is probably the reason it endures at all. Enclosures of this kind are found across Ireland and typically date from the early medieval period, serving variously as farmsteads, livestock enclosures, or enclosed settlements, though without excavation the precise function and date of this particular example remain open questions. What the surviving earthwork does preserve is a shape, and a scale, that speak to organised land use stretching back well before the existing field patterns were laid down.