Roughly twelve metres across, it was recorded during fieldwork in 1988 and subsequently listed as a possible enclosure, that careful qualifier doing a great deal of work. The word "possible" in archaeological records of this kind is not evasiveness but honesty; without excavation, the origin and purpose of a circular earthwork cannot always be confirmed.

Enclosures of this general type are among the most common, and most ambiguous, archaeological features in the Irish landscape. They may represent the remains of a ringfort, a form of enclosed farmstead used broadly from the early medieval period onward, or they could be far older, associated with Bronze Age or Iron Age activity. The relatively modest diameter here, around twelve metres, sits at the smaller end of the scale for such features. The dense conifer planting that surrounds it, characteristic of commercial forestry that expanded across Irish uplands through much of the twentieth century, now shapes both the physical condition of the site and the difficulty of reading it clearly from the ground.