Yet the geometry here is deliberate: a roughly rectangular area measuring approximately 26 metres northwest to southeast and around 37 metres northeast to southwest, its northern boundary defined by a bank some three metres wide. The eastern side is marked by a scarp, a slight but readable drop in the ground surface, while part of the western side has been levelled almost flat, possibly indicating where an entrance once widened enough for people or livestock to pass through comfortably.

Enclosures of this kind, defined by earthen banks rather than stone walls, are a common but often poorly understood feature of the Irish landscape. They could serve any number of purposes depending on their period and setting: ecclesiastical enclosures frequently surrounded early Christian sites, while others were purely agricultural or associated with earlier settlement. What makes the Colman example quietly interesting is its relationship to the adjoining graveyard to its south, and to a second enclosure immediately to the north, along with further earthworks to the east and southwest of the burial ground. That clustering suggests this was not an isolated feature but part of a broader arrangement of activity across the slope. The site was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map edition of 1903 to 1904, shown as a single line of hachures, the cartographic shorthand for an earthen bank or ridge, which at least confirms the earthworks were legible at that point and had not been substantially disturbed by then.

The interior tilts gently downslope toward the east, and the whole thing sits in ordinary pasture today, the grass giving no obvious indication that the ground beneath has been shaped by human hands at some earlier, unspecified point. The proximity to the graveyard and the concentration of earthworks in the surrounding area make this a site where the landscape is doing more than it first appears.