At ground level, standing in what is now ordinary pasture, there is nothing to indicate that anything lies beneath the grass. The site exists, for practical purposes, as a photograph.

That photograph, taken in 1955 as part of an aerial survey, captured a cropmark, the faint differential in vegetation growth that betrays buried archaeology to a camera looking down from above. Buried features such as ditches retain more moisture than the surrounding soil, causing the grass or crops above them to grow slightly differently, and in dry conditions especially, this difference becomes legible. What the 1955 image revealed was the outline of a roughly square enclosure, measuring approximately fifteen metres by fifteen metres, defined by a bank and an external fosse, meaning a ditch dug on the outside of the bank rather than within it. Square or rectilinear enclosures are comparatively unusual in the Irish archaeological landscape, where circular forms predominate, and that alone gives this one a quiet distinction. Its date and precise function are unrecorded, though such enclosures in Kerry are generally considered to be early medieval in origin.