The circular earthwork measures fifty-two metres across, and what remains of the defining bank is modest, rising only about three-quarters of a metre on its outer face. Walking across the field, a person might cross the line of it without quite registering the slight change in ground level beneath their feet. That is part of what makes it worth attention: the subtlety is the thing.

The enclosure was not identified by fieldwork on the ground but by aerial photography, with the site coming to light from photographs taken in July 2000. From the air, the circular form resolves clearly, the bank surviving largely as a broad scarp, meaning a gentle slope where the original earthwork has spread and softened over time. The northern quadrant retains the most definition. Enclosures of this general type, most commonly associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, were typically formed by a bank and external ditch enclosing a domestic or agricultural space, though without excavation it is impossible to assign a firm date or function to any individual example. What adds an extra layer of curiosity here is the presence of a second, concentric enclosure just one hundred and twenty metres to the east, that is, a ring within a ring arrangement at a separate but closely related site. The two together suggest this stretch of gently rolling ground near the River Nore was once a more deliberately organised landscape than the open pasture visible today.