Whatever it once was, it was substantial enough to be recorded clearly in 1838 and gone from the cartographic record entirely by the time later surveyors came through. That kind of quiet erasure is not uncommon in the Irish landscape, where centuries of quarrying, farming, and simple neglect have a way of reducing coherent structures to ambiguous ground, but it gives this site an particular character: something was here, and now its outline is a matter of careful looking.

The 1838 six-inch Ordnance Survey map shows a circular embanked enclosure roughly 35 to 40 metres in diameter, an enclosure being a defined area bounded by an earthen bank or wall, which in the Irish archaeological record can range from a domestic ringfort to something with a ritual or ceremonial function. Immediately to the east of that enclosure, the same map recorded a quarry pit of around 20 metres across, and two vernacular houses sat about 30 metres to the southeast. The quarry is likely what did the most damage. What remains today is a sub-circular area of severely disturbed and quarried ground, measuring roughly 40 metres east to west and 44 metres north to south. Around the southern and western edges, a gently curving scarp, a low slope or step in the ground surface, rises to about two metres and merges into the natural fall of the hillside; this may be what survives of the original enclosing bank, though the disturbance makes any firm interpretation difficult.

The site sits at the southern end of the raised spur and commands wide views southward over a broad expanse of low-lying pasture and bog, which is worth bearing in mind when considering why anyone chose this particular spot to build in the first place. Visibility and elevation mattered to the people who constructed such enclosures, whatever their precise purpose, and standing here it is not hard to see why the location was selected.