Standing at the spot, a visitor would find no visible bank, no ditch, no obvious outline in the grass; the structure has effectively disappeared into the landscape at ground level. What survives is a cartographic ghost, something that was recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839 and again on the 1900 revision as a roughly circular enclosure measuring approximately 28 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west.

The site sits at the break between steep rocky uplands and the gentler, more fertile valley side below, a transitional position that would not have been chosen carelessly. Whoever built and used this enclosure had clear views to the north, south, and west, while the higher ground to the east looks down over the spot. Enclosures of this kind, broadly circular earthworks defined by a bank and internal ditch or sometimes just a bank alone, are associated in Ireland with early medieval settlement and agricultural organisation, though function and date can vary considerably without excavation. What is particularly interesting here is the immediate company the site keeps. Within a radius of roughly 300 metres lie two ringforts, the characteristically circular enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, and a possible concentric enclosure, which features two rings rather than one, sits barely 110 metres to the west-southwest. This clustering suggests the area once carried a density of activity that the current empty hillside gives no hint of.