It is unassuming enough that you might walk past it without a second thought, yet it sits in deliberate relationship with the landscape around it: a ringfort crowns the hill directly above, a second ringfort is visible on a hilltop 360 metres to the north-east, and a spring rises in the small glen just twenty-four metres beyond the enclosure's south-eastern edge. Whatever purpose it once served, it was placed with some care.

The enclosure was identified from aerial photographs taken in 1996 and 2001, which is a reminder of how much of Ireland's archaeological record has only become legible from the air. On the ground, the bank is defined by a stony earthwork between roughly four and five metres wide overall, with a crest width of under one and a half metres. The slope complicates things: on the uphill northern side, the bank stands higher above the interior than above the exterior, while on the downhill southern side the effect reverses. An enclosure of this type, a roughly oval embanked area without obvious defensive scale, is not uncommon in the Irish landscape, though its precise function, whether for agriculture, habitation, or something else, is rarely easy to determine. Inside the perimeter there are two small low mounds; the more southerly one measures approximately six metres by three and stands about forty-five centimetres high. A field boundary runs north to south straight through the monument, cutting across one of the mounds. That boundary is old, but not as old as the enclosure it interrupts, which gives some sense of the layered time at work here. The south-eastern sector of the bank is the most worn down, in the area where the interior ground slopes away towards the glen and its spring, suggesting either deliberate access or simply centuries of water and foot traffic taking their toll.