That it was found is almost incidental; the discovery came not through any planned archaeological programme but through a geophysical survey commissioned ahead of the proposed waste development. The survey, carried out under Licence no. 05R062, picked up the circular anomaly in the ground, and only then did archaeologists get the chance to investigate properly.

Test excavation under Licence no. 05E1063 confirmed what the geophysics had suggested. The site is a sub-circular enclosure roughly 33 metres in diameter, a size broadly consistent with a ringfort, the type of enclosed farmstead that was the dominant settlement form in early medieval Ireland. The enclosing ditch reaches a depth of 1.1 metres, and within the interior there are features that appear to indicate the former presence of dwellings. Animal bone and burnt material were recovered from the ditch, the kind of domestic refuse that builds up over years of occupation, but nothing recovered could be precisely dated. As Lohan noted in 2006, the site produced no datable material, which means that while the form strongly implies early medieval origins, that connection cannot be confirmed from the excavation alone. The enclosure sits on the northern slope of an east-west ridge, a position that would have offered reasonable drainage and some shelter, practical considerations that tend to recur at Irish settlement sites regardless of period.

The site at Nevitt is not marked or interpreted for visitors, and the circumstances of its discovery mean it sits in the archaeological record rather than in any public landscape. The evidence for it exists primarily in the excavation report and the licence files rather than in anything visible at ground level. For anyone interested in how much of Ireland's early settlement archaeology has survived only by accident, or only just survived at all, it is a useful reminder that the record is shaped as much by where development happens to be proposed as by where archaeology actually exists.