It sits on a low but conspicuous knoll in the middle of improved pasture, and to all appearances the ground there is just ground, a gentle rise in the field with woodland falling away to the east. Whatever once defined this place, whether a bank, a wall, or a ditched boundary, has been levelled so thoroughly that nothing remains visible at surface level.

The enclosure does, however, survive on paper. The 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows a large oval area defined by a single enclosing element, and later mapping, including the twenty-five inch OS map and the 1921 edition of the six-inch, records a sub-oval area measuring roughly 30 metres north to south and 19 metres east to west, still bounded by that same single enclosing line. Enclosures of this kind are broadly associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, often serving as farmsteads or ring-forts, though the precise date and function of the Cant example is not recorded. The knoll itself appears to have been chosen with some deliberate care: the land drops steeply to the north and east, offering both drainage and a clear view of the surrounding terrain. Local knowledge holds that the land was intensively improved at some point before the 1980s, which accounts for the disappearance of whatever earthwork once stood here. The maps are now the only reliable record of its shape.