From the air, the tree cover gives the monument away immediately; at ground level, it reads more like an accidental copse than anything deliberately made. What sets this site apart is the way the historical mapping allows us to watch its description shift over time, from something understood as an active landmark to something increasingly absorbed into the landscape around it.

The Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1840 records the monument as a large fort surrounded by a bank, language that suggests the surveyors of that period still saw it as a legible earthwork with some structural presence. By the time the twenty-five-inch edition was produced in 1897, the terminology had changed to the more neutral word enclosure, and the feature is described as being surrounded by a fosse, a ditch dug to define and defend a bounded space, running to external dimensions of roughly 50 metres north to south and 50 metres east to west. That shift in language between editions may reflect actual erosion of the bank, or simply a change in how Ordnance Survey officers categorised such things, but either way, the monument was clearly already losing definition. The site lies about 240 metres southwest of the River Maigue and the townland boundary with Skagh, positioning it in a stretch of low-lying ground that would have had practical value for any community occupying it in the early medieval period.

Access to the field itself would require the permission of the landowner, as the enclosure sits in private pasture. Aerial and satellite imagery, including orthoimages from 2005 through to 2018, confirms that the interior remains covered in scrub woodland, which both protects and obscures whatever earthwork survives beneath. Visitors interested in the wider area might note that Croom itself has a well-documented medieval core, including the parish church to the southeast, which provides useful historical context for understanding why this kind of enclosed site, likely a ringfort or similar early settlement feature, would have been established in this part of the Maigue valley. The enclosure record was compiled by Edmond O'Donovan and uploaded to the national monuments database in September 2020.