To walk across it today is to notice almost nothing; the ground simply behaves a little oddly underfoot. Yet this minor irregularity marks the ghost of a bank and fosse, the fosse being a defensive or boundary ditch typically cut to accompany a raised earthen bank, that once defined a structure roughly 34 metres across.

What makes the site quietly interesting is the way successive records have each caught it looking slightly different. When the Ordnance Survey first mapped this part of Tipperary in 1840, the enclosure appeared as a D-shape, with a straight southern side running about 36 metres and a curved northern arc, giving it something of a flattened, purposeful outline. By the time the surveyors returned for the 1904 to 1905 edition, it had been recorded as oval, approximately 31 metres north to south and 37 metres east to west, surrounded by a wide fosse that field boundaries had already begun to cut into on the western and north-eastern sides. Then, in a Cambridge University aerial photograph taken in July 1970, the whole thing resolved into a sub-rectangular cropmark, the kind of shadow that buried ditches and banks cast in dry summer grass when seen from above. Three snapshots, three different shapes, each reflecting both the limitations of the recording method and the real, ongoing erasure of the monument itself. One of the field boundaries that once clipped the western edge has since been removed entirely, and the enclosure now sits in open pasture, its eastern side still traced by a boundary running north-west to south-east along what was once its outer edge.