The ground rises almost imperceptibly, forming a subcircular area roughly fourteen metres north to south and twelve metres east to west. Around its edge, a few larger stones push up through the sod, and the surface underfoot is slightly uneven, stony in a way that the surrounding field is not. It reads less as a monument and more as a rumour in the landscape.

The site was first formally identified not by fieldwork but by aerial photography, when a subrectangular outline became visible from above, prompting its listing as a possible enclosure in both the Sites and Monuments Record of 1991 and the Record of Monuments and Places in 1997. Enclosures of this kind are broadly understood as defined, bounded spaces, sometimes associated with early settlement or agricultural activity, though without excavation the precise function of any individual example remains difficult to pin down. What makes this one quietly interesting is the gap between the two accounts of it: from the air, something subrectangular; on the ground, something subcircular and barely there. The slight raising of the ground and the stones at the perimeter are the only physical evidence that anything was ever deliberately arranged here. Around a hundred metres to the east, a stream runs roughly north to south, its course doubling as the townland boundary. About ninety metres to the north sits a rath, a circular earthwork of the kind associated with early medieval farmsteads in Ireland, which suggests this corner of Mayo was once more actively used than its present quietness implies.