At ground level there is nothing to see; the site reveals itself solely as a cropmark, a ghostly ring that appears in aerial photography when differential moisture or soil depth causes overlying vegetation to grow at slightly different rates above buried features. The photograph that captured it, taken as part of the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography series, shows the outline of a fosse, a ditch that once defined the perimeter of the enclosure, now entirely buried and invisible to anyone standing in the field.

The enclosure sits at a break in an east-facing slope, with a pronounced drop immediately to its east, the kind of topographic position that recurs often in Irish archaeology, where the builders of ring-ditches, enclosures, and related monuments seem to have favoured edges, transitions in the landscape, rather than flat open ground. The fosse that defines this one is the characteristic feature: a cut ditch, typically dug to demarcate a space, whether for settlement, ritual, or burial, depending on the period and context. Without excavation, it is not possible to say which function applied here, or indeed when the enclosure was made, since cropmark evidence alone cannot supply a date.