Its banks, where they survive, rise no more than a few tens of centimetres above the surrounding ground, and along parts of its southern arc they have been worn to little more than a faint ripple in the turf. It does not appear on Ordnance Survey maps from either 1838 or 1922, which suggests it was either already too subtle to record by then, or was simply overlooked. Neither explanation is entirely satisfying.

The enclosure is roughly subcircular in plan, measuring about seven metres east to west and nine metres north to south, and it sits on the eastern side of a larger semicircular platform some fourteen to fifteen metres in diameter. A second enclosure adjoins the platform to the west, making the two features a conjoined pair. Running along the northern edge of the platform is the ghost of an old trackway, oriented broadly east-northeast to west-southwest and roughly four to five metres wide, its southern flank still marked by a low field bank. About 140 metres to the north, a large rectangular field is named the Fair Green on nineteenth-century maps, a place-name that in Ireland typically points to a site of fairs or public gatherings, often well-established by the post-medieval period. The combination of features, including two small enclosures, a platform, and a nearby fair green all clustered on the same ridge, suggests this corner of north Mayo was a more organised and purposeful landscape than it now appears. The enclosures differ in shape from the ringforts typical of this part of Mayo; ringforts are circular or oval earthwork enclosures, generally of early medieval date, used as farmsteads. These features are considered possibly post-medieval in date, though their function remains uncertain.