The site sits in pasture on a small hillock at the base of a south-facing ridge slope. Up on the ridge itself stands a separate rath, a type of enclosed circular settlement used throughout early medieval Ireland, typically defined by an earthen bank and internal ditch. The enclosure lower down the slope appears related in some way to that elevated feature, though it never made it onto any edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, which means it left no cartographic trace across the entire nineteenth and twentieth century mapping record. Its existence was only formally noted through aerial photography, which caught the tell-tale shadow of a raised circular area with what may be a fosse, the surrounding ditch that typically defines such enclosures, and an outer bank. A field boundary running on a north-north-west to south-south-east axis cuts directly through the centre of it.

When the site was visited on the ground in 2000, that dividing field wall was still standing, and the condition of what lay on either side of it told two very different stories. To the west, a raised semicircular area roughly 36 metres north to south and about 22 metres east to west, standing to a height of around 1.7 metres, could still be traced, its straight edge defined by the wall itself. To the east, the picture was considerably bleaker. A very slight rise survives at the south-east, but the original eastern and north-eastern portions of the enclosure have been obliterated entirely by the concrete silage pit, a structure measuring approximately 28 metres by 13 metres, which has claimed that quarter of the site for good.