That combination of ambiguity and near-invisibility is precisely what makes it interesting. The site sits in a pronounced hollow in the ground, and the low earthen bank that is supposed to define it looks, to the eye on the ground, rather more like a drain than any deliberate boundary. Archaeology occasionally works this way: a feature that resolves into something coherent from altitude dissolves back into the landscape the moment you try to walk its perimeter.

The site came to attention through aerial photography by Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould, whose overhead view revealed what appeared to be a small circular enclosure defined by a low bank with narrow ditches, known as fosses, running along both its inner and outer edges. Enclosures of this kind, typically a bank and ditch arrangement enclosing a roughly circular area, are among the most common field monuments in Ireland, often associated with early medieval settlement or farming activity. At Coolmore, however, the picture complicates itself quickly. A second arc sweeping around to the south-west may be nothing more than natural terracing in the limestone outcrop. Further upslope to the west, a concentric arc of bank and fosse can be traced running from an outcrop southward and westward, possibly continuing in fragmentary form toward a field boundary to the north. Additional low banks to the south and west of the enclosure suggest the outlines of small, irregular fields, though nothing resolves into a confident pattern. The site lies roughly 600 metres east of a separate, more clearly defined circular enclosure in the same townland, which raises the question of whether the two features were ever functionally related.

The honest visitor-facing note here is one of managed expectation. On the ground the site offers very little to see without prior knowledge of what the aerial photographs suggest might be there, and even then the hollow, the outcrops, and the possible drains resist easy interpretation. It is the kind of place where the archaeology exists largely as a question rather than an answer.