The enclosure at Scart sits on a long ridge above a river valley, the water running about a hundred metres to the south, and what survives is essentially a shape pressed into the ground rather than anything rising above it. By the time the Ordnance Survey revised its six-inch maps for the 1907 edition, the feature had vanished from the record entirely, having appeared on the 1840 first edition as an irregular oval roughly 56 metres north to south and 80 metres east to west.

Today the enclosure reads as a sub-rectangular area, slightly compressed from its originally mapped dimensions to around 56 by 60 metres. Enclosures of this kind, broadly circular or oval earthworks typically formed by a bank and ditch, are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, often interpreted as the remains of early medieval settlement or as boundaries with agricultural or ritual functions. Here, the evidence is subtle rather than dramatic: the northern side is marked by a gradual fall in the slope towards the interior, the western quadrant retains a slight, broad, flattened bank, and the southern boundary coincides with a modern field boundary. A pool of water collects along the interior edge of that southern side, following the line where the old earthwork once stood. It is the kind of site that rewards patience and a low sun angle, when the ground itself begins to speak in the language of shadow and slight undulation.