No mark on either the six-inch or the twenty-five-inch maps indicates that anything here was considered worth noting. The site only came to light in 1986, not through any deliberate archaeological programme, but because engineers were laying the Curraleigh to Limerick gas pipeline and aerial photographs of the route were examined as part of that infrastructure work. The enclosure, invisible to map-makers on the ground for over a century, revealed itself from the air.

When the Archaeological Survey of Ireland came to survey the site in 2000, what they recorded was modest but measurable. The monument is a raised, roughly circular area measuring approximately ten metres north to south and fourteen metres east to west, defined by a scarped edge, meaning the ground drops away along a sharp, eroded slope rather than a constructed bank. That scarp is around 3.8 metres wide and half a metre high at its best-preserved sections, which run from the east-south-east around to the north-west. On the south-south-east to south-south-west arc it has been almost entirely flattened, most likely by centuries of agricultural use. The interior, though undulating, is clear of scrub or growth. Enclosures of this kind, broadly circular earthworks that once defined a domestic or farming space, are among the most common monument types in the Irish landscape, yet a great many remain unidentified precisely because low-lying examples like this one leave so faint an impression at ground level.

The site sits in level pasture with moderate views in all directions, which makes it easy to approach but also easy to overlook entirely on foot. Its outline, though barely perceptible as a slight rise underfoot, has been confirmed as visible on an Ordnance Survey Ireland aerial image from late 2005 and on a Google Earth orthoimage from March 2016, so satellite and aerial views remain the clearest way to orientate yourself before visiting. There are no formal access arrangements noted, and as with most unexcavated earthworks in agricultural land, the ground itself gives little away beyond a gentle, almost imperceptible change in elevation.