What makes it quietly worth attention is the way it has fought back against the landscape that surrounds it. Along its western side, the earthen bank has been faced with coursed limestone blocks, a deliberate intervention to prevent the boggy ground from swallowing the structure entirely. On the south-western to north-western arc, where the bank gives way to a steeply cut vertical edge rising to 2.8 metres, the same limestone facing has been applied. That steep scarp is thought to be the result of erosion eating away at the original boundary, leaving behind a raw, near-vertical face rather than a gradual slope.

The enclosure itself is irregular in shape, roughly 27.6 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west. The earth-and-stone bank that defines most of its perimeter stands around 0.6 metres on the interior and just over a metre on the exterior, modest dimensions that suggest this was a functional rather than defensive structure. According to a survey compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011, the site may have served as an animal pen associated with a ruined nineteenth-century farmstead that lies approximately 50 metres to the south. The connection is circumstantial but plausible; the limestone-faced walls would have made reasonable sense as a livestock enclosure in low-lying ground where the boundaries would otherwise have been vulnerable to waterlogging and collapse.

The northern half of the interior, along with the enclosing bank on that side, is buried under dense overgrowth, which limits how much can be seen from within the enclosure itself. Cattle tracks have worn the bank down in many places, adding a contemporary layer of erosion to a structure that has already been shaped by centuries of water and weather. The site sits about 60 metres south of the river and 20 metres east of the tributary, so the ground underfoot is likely to be soft, particularly after rain. Anyone visiting should expect that much of what defines the enclosure is easier to read from the outside, where the coursed limestone facing on the western bank is the most legible feature remaining.