This kind of site, broadly classified as an enclosure, is the sort of thing a walker might cross without realising it, feeling only a vague sense that the ground rises slightly underfoot toward the centre. It is not dramatic. That, in a way, is the point.

The enclosure at Graig is defined by a combination of features that its surveyor, Denis Power, recorded with some care. Along the south-west to north-north-east arc, a scarped edge, essentially a cut slope in the ground, rises to about a metre in height and is accompanied by an external fosse, a shallow ditch running alongside it, roughly forty centimetres deep and a little under a metre and a half wide. Around the north-north-east to south-east arc, the scarped edge becomes barely perceptible, and along the south-east to south-west section, a field boundary has been laid directly over the original scarp, partly absorbing it into the working agricultural landscape. There is a gap in the bank on the northern side, about two and a quarter metres wide, which may represent an original entrance. In the north-west quadrant of the interior, low parallel undulations have been recorded, which may be the residual traces of cultivation ridges, suggesting the enclosed space was at some point worked as cultivated ground. Aerial photographs taken in October 2002 as part of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland provide additional documentation of the site from above.

The enclosure sits in ordinary farmland, and there is nothing to mark it out from the road. Visiting requires an awareness that what you are looking for is subtle: a slight thickening of the field boundary in one direction, a barely-there dip where the fosse once ran, a gentle interior rise. The north-side gap in the bank is perhaps the clearest feature to orient yourself by once you are standing within it. The site is most legible under low winter sun or in dry summers when differential grass growth can pick out earthworks that are otherwise invisible, and the aerial photographs suggest this is a site that rewards that kind of oblique or elevated viewing.