The earthwork here appears to be roughly square, measuring around 37 metres across, and that shape alone sets it apart. The vast majority of early medieval Irish enclosures are circular, the familiar ringfort form that dots the Irish countryside in its thousands. A square or rectilinear enclosure is comparatively rare, and the uncertainty that comes with it, the hedged "possibly square" of anyone who has looked carefully at it, adds to the sense that this feature has not yet given up much of itself.

The site survives as low earthen banks, worn down by centuries of grazing pasture, and it sits in close company with two ringforts, one roughly 82 metres to the north-east and another about 130 metres to the north-north-east. Ringforts were the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, typically dating from somewhere between the sixth and twelfth centuries, and their proximity here suggests this part of the ridge was a focus of settled activity during that period. Whether the square enclosure belongs to the same phase of use, or represents something older or functionally different, is not clear from what survives above ground. It may have served a domestic, agricultural, or ceremonial purpose; without excavation, the question stays open.