Near the brow of a ridge in undulating pastureland in North Galway, what survives amounts to a slightly raised platform and the remnant of an external fosse, the fosse being a defensive ditch, cut into the ground around the perimeter of such enclosures to define and protect whatever lay within. These fragments sit on either side of the road, to the northeast and southwest, the rest of the original form largely lost.

The site was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps as an irregular enclosure running roughly northeast to southwest, measuring approximately forty metres across that axis. Enclosures of this kind appear across Ireland in considerable variety, some associated with early medieval settlement, others with earlier prehistoric activity, and their precise function is often impossible to establish without excavation. Here, the irregularity of the shape and the modest surviving earthworks offer few additional clues. The road that cuts through it was presumably laid out with no particular regard for what lay beneath or to either side, a situation that is far from unusual in a landscape where such features were long considered simply part of the terrain.