What survives is partial at best: a bank tracing an arc from the west, around through the north, and down to the north-north-east, with the remainder of the circuit reduced to a degraded scarp, the kind of low earthen slope that is easy to dismiss as a natural feature of the ground until you stand at the right angle and follow the curve of it.

Enclosures of this type are among the most common, and most quietly contested, features of the Irish rural landscape. They are generally understood as the remains of enclosed farmsteads or settlement sites, most commonly dating from the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, though some examples are older. The circular or subcircular bank would originally have defined a domestic and agricultural space, separating a household and its structures from the surrounding land. This particular example has been further obscured by the practicalities of later farming: a field boundary cuts across the monument at both its eastern and western sides, the kind of incremental erasure that happens when land is subdivided and worked across generations without any particular awareness of what lies beneath the grass.