The site exists as a cropmark, a phenomenon where buried features such as ditches or banks influence how vegetation grows above them, producing variations in colour or height that become legible only when viewed from altitude. In this case, the cropmark traces the fosse, or defensive ditch, of a circular enclosure roughly fifty metres in diameter, with what appears to be an entrance facing south-south-east.

The enclosure came to light in aerial photographs taken in July 1989 as part of a systematic survey of the Cork region. What makes the location particularly interesting is that it does not sit in isolation. Some sixty metres to the north, in the same field, lies a ring-ditch, a related but distinct type of circular earthwork that in Irish archaeology is often associated with Bronze Age burial or ceremonial activity. Both features sit within the traces of a wider field system, suggesting this corner of North Cork was once an organised, actively managed landscape. The circular enclosure itself is likely a ringfort, the most common monument type in early medieval Ireland, typically enclosing a farmstead or small settlement, though without excavation the precise date and function remain open questions.