It sits, or once sat, beside a dramatic rock outcrop on the eastern side of a north-south valley, a position that would have commanded views in every direction. Roughly forty metres in diameter, it was the kind of circular earthwork, a simple bounded space defined by a raised bank or ditch, that appears across Ireland in various forms and periods. But where the ground should reveal something, there is instead the aftermath of a quarry.

The enclosure appears on the first-edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which dates the documentary record of it to the nineteenth century, and it was formally listed as an earthwork in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996. By the time attention turned to it more carefully, extensive quarrying in the area had already done considerable damage. Quarry soil was dumped across the site, and whatever earthwork once rose above the ground is no longer visible at surface level. It is considered at least partially quarried away, though there is a possibility that some portion survives beneath the upcast material, unexcavated and unconfirmed.

What remains, then, is a monument that exists primarily on paper and on old maps, in a landscape that still has the rock outcrop and the valley and the wide views that presumably made the site worth enclosing in the first place. The archaeology may or may not be there underfoot. The quarrying made sure nobody can say for certain.