The enclosure exists primarily as a cropmark, a ghost pressed into the vegetation of a south-facing tillage slope, legible only from the air. Cropmarks form when buried features such as ditches or banks affect how crops grow above them, leaving faint differences in colour or height that become visible in aerial photographs, particularly in dry summers when stress on the plants is greatest. Without that aerial perspective, a person walking this field would have no particular reason to pause.

The enclosure itself is circular, roughly forty metres in diameter, with its entrance oriented to the north-east. It is univallate, meaning it was defined by a single bank or ditch rather than the multiple concentric rings found at more elaborate sites. What makes the situation here more interesting than a lone enclosure is the company it keeps. A second enclosure lies a short distance to the south-west, and a third appears to the north-east, suggesting this part of Cork once held a cluster of enclosed settlements or activity areas rather than an isolated farmstead. The aerial photographs that revealed all of this were taken by Dr D. D. C. Pochin Mould, whose work documented many such sites across the Irish landscape. Further linear features in a field to the south have been interpreted as possible trackways connecting these enclosures, hinting at a small, organised local network rather than scattered individual sites.