It is not dramatic to look at, which is perhaps why it has attracted so little attention. The bank is barely a few centimetres high on its interior face, though it rises a little more steeply on the outside, and it traces a sub-oval shape roughly eighteen and a half metres across at its widest point. That shape, and the deliberate hand that formed it, is what separates this from the ordinary contours of a soft field.

Enclosures of this kind, simple rings defined by a low earthen bank and sometimes an accompanying ditch, are scattered across Ireland in considerable numbers. They are not always easy to date or interpret without excavation, but they are generally understood as early features of the farmed and inhabited landscape, possibly serving as animal enclosures, boundaries for small settlements, or markers of some other organised land use. What makes the Lickadoon example quietly interesting is its state of preservation. The bank survives well around its entire circuit, which is unusual for earthworks on ground this wet. Two dips in the bank, one to the northeast measuring about three and a half metres wide and a shallower one to the south-southwest at around one and a half metres, may represent the original entrances, though this cannot be confirmed without further investigation. The interior slopes gently down toward the northeast and is waterlogged, which may partly explain why the bank has remained undisturbed; this is not ground that lends itself easily to ploughing or building. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in May 2013.

Accessing the site means crossing private agricultural land in gently rolling countryside, so permission from the relevant landowner would be needed before attempting a visit. The waterlogged interior means that even in drier months the ground will be soft underfoot, and in wetter seasons it may be largely flooded. The bank itself is easiest to read by walking the perimeter and looking for the subtle rise and fall of the earthwork against the surrounding pasture. The two dips that may mark entrance points are the details worth pausing over; one is noticeably wider than the other, and that difference in scale, suggesting perhaps different functions or different periods of use, is something that the site record leaves open.