The ground gives nothing away. What was once a small walled enclosure is now improved pasture, its stones absorbed into the landscape after agricultural work carried out during the 1960s and 70s levelled whatever surface traces remained. Beech woodland and exposed rock outcropping nearby hint at the underlying geology, limestone close to the skin of the land, but the enclosure itself has effectively vanished from sight.

The antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp recorded the site in his survey of the area between 1914 and 1916, labelling it 'D' on his map of what he called the Gorteen Group of Forts. A bawn, in the Irish context, typically refers to a walled enclosure associated with a defended residence or tower house, though the term is sometimes applied more loosely to earlier enclosures of uncertain function. What caught Westropp's attention was the shape. He noted it as D-shaped in plan and remarked, with the careful puzzlement of a good field observer, that there was nothing in the site itself to explain or necessitate that form. The D-shape was simply there, unexplained by the topography or by any obvious structural reason. The site never appeared on Ordnance Survey historic mapping, which suggests it may already have been indistinct or poorly understood by the time those surveys were conducted, making Westropp's record the primary description of what it once looked like.