What makes it quietly odd is its setting: the surrounding land was noted, on both the 1840 and 1916 editions of the six-inch OS map, as liable to floods. The enclosure sits immediately east of a stream, with higher ground rising to the east, south, and north, which means it occupies a position that is elevated just enough to remain above the waterline, while remaining hemmed in on nearly every side.

The enclosure is oval in plan, measuring roughly 62 metres east to west and 49 metres north to south. Its boundary is defined by a low earthen lip, no more than about 10 centimetres high in places, which may be the degraded remnant of a bank, and an earthen scarp ranging between 70 centimetres and 1.3 metres in height. Earthen enclosures of this kind, sometimes called ringforts or raths when they have a more clearly defined bank and ditch, were a common form of enclosed settlement in early medieval Ireland, though the word enclosure is used cautiously here because the function of this particular example is not established. An entrance gap with a causeway, now accessed through a modern gate, survives on the eastern side. The interior shows no visible features, though the centre sits fractionally higher than the perimeter, a subtle topographic detail that would be easy to miss underfoot. Its presence on the hachured maps of 1840 and 1916, marked with the cartographic symbol for an earthwork, confirms it was recognised as a structure of some age well before any formal archaeological attention reached it.