Its bank barely clears the surrounding pasture by a quarter of a metre at its most visible point, a thin ridge running roughly northwest to southeast, easy to miss and easier still to misread as a field boundary or a trick of the light.

The Ordnance Survey's 25-inch map of 1892 records it more clearly: an oval earthwork measuring approximately 34 metres north to south and 48 metres east to west, enclosed by a bank, with the townland boundary folded into its western side as the map was drawn, running southwest to northeast. That overlapping of an ancient enclosure with a later administrative line is a common enough occurrence in the Irish landscape, where field boundaries, parish limits, and townland edges were often drawn along whatever earthworks were already present. By the time the site was visited in 2000, the bank had eroded to the point where only the northwest-to-southeast stretch remained legible on the ground. Directly to the north-northwest, a disused lime quarry abuts the enclosure. Lime quarries of this kind typically fed a nearby kiln, where limestone was burned to produce quicklime for agricultural use, fertilising acidic soils. The kiln that once operated here, sited in a field roughly 30 metres to the west, has since been removed entirely, leaving the quarry as a kind of punctuation mark beside a monument whose original purpose remains unrecorded.