Look more carefully, though, and the ground begins to tell a more deliberate story. The interior sits slightly lower than the surrounding terrain, the loose stone underfoot suggests something structural beneath the vegetation, and one section of the enclosing bank has slumped inward in a way that creates the misleading appearance of two separate banks with a shallow dip between them.

The site was recorded and compiled by Denis Power, with notes uploaded in August 2011. It is an ovoid enclosure measuring roughly 22.7 metres east to west, defined by an earth-and-stone bank that runs from the west-southwest around to the south-southeast, though the enclosing element is absent along the southern arc, leaving that side open or collapsed. The bank itself is not uniform. To the north-northwest it rises considerably, with an internal height of around 1.25 metres and an external height of 0.9 metres, making it a genuinely substantial earthwork in that section. Elsewhere it is much more modest, barely 0.45 metres on the interior face. A smaller curved bank, only about 0.3 metres high, abuts the enclosure to the south-southeast and appears to define an annex of some kind, though this area is now so heavily overgrown that its full extent is difficult to read. Enclosures of this general type, defined by earth-and-stone banks and sometimes associated with early agricultural or settlement activity, are relatively common across Limerick and the wider Munster landscape, though the irregularity and partial survival here make this example harder to classify with confidence.

The site lies immediately east of a large limestone quarry, which gives a useful landmark for orientation. The gentle southeast-facing slope means it catches the light reasonably well on a clear morning, which can help when trying to trace the line of the bank through the vegetation. Dense scrub covers both the interior and the annex area to the south-southeast, so progress on foot is slow and the annex in particular is difficult to examine closely. The loose stone scattered across the interior becomes more apparent once your eyes adjust to looking past the surface growth. There is no formal access or signage.