It reads, at a distance, as nothing more than a slight irregularity in the grass. Get closer, and the geometry becomes harder to dismiss: an enclosure roughly 15.5 metres across its longest axis and 13 metres wide, defined by a scarped earthen edge that still stands to around 1.6 metres in height and stretches some 2.75 metres in width. Beyond that bank, a fosse, which is essentially a defensive ditch dug into the earth around the perimeter, runs from the north-west around to the south, measuring over five metres across. This is a site that has largely been left to the cattle and the briars, yet its dimensions and form suggest something deliberately and carefully made.

Enclosures of this type are common enough across the Irish countryside, often understood as ringforts, the farmsteads of early medieval Ireland where a family and their livestock would have sheltered within a banked and ditched boundary. The oval plan here, with its scarped edge and external fosse, fits broadly within that tradition, though no specific date or documented history has been attached to this particular example. What the survey record does preserve, compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in November 2013, is the physical evidence: the breach in the eastern edge, roughly two metres wide, most likely widened or created by cattle passing through over generations, and the western outer edge cut across by a later drainage ditch running roughly north-west to south-east. These modifications are themselves a kind of layered history, each generation of farming leaving its mark on something already old.

The enclosure sits on an east-facing slope with moderate views to the north and south, which means the interior catches morning light and the surrounding landscape opens up usefully from the bank. The inside is level and grass-covered, though briars have colonised much of the perimeter from the west-south-west around to the north, so picking a careful line is worthwhile. The drainage ditch on the western side is the most practical obstacle for anyone approaching from that direction. There is no formal access or signage; this is agricultural land, and the courtesies of the Irish countryside apply.