What makes it quietly puzzling is not what survives but what the maps say, or rather fail to say. An enclosure of this size would normally register clearly in the cartographic record, yet it does not appear on the 1843 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, a conspicuous absence that raises genuine uncertainty about its age and origins.

The monument takes the form of a low earthen bank, a ring enclosure of the kind that in Ireland often marks early ecclesiastical or settlement sites, accompanied by an outer fosse, which is essentially a ditch running around the exterior of the bank. Both survive poorly. The bank stands barely a third of a metre high on the outside and is best preserved along the eastern and northern arc, where the natural rise of the ground has afforded some protection. Elsewhere, a later field boundary cuts across the southern and western sections, destroying the remains that were still visible on the 1906 Ordnance Survey edition. Further disturbance in the southern quadrant comes from drainage earthworks dug at some point after the enclosure was formed. In the northern quadrant, a low grass-covered mound of stone, roughly half a metre high and five metres across, may mark the site of a church, and indeed a church and enclosure together are noted on later OS maps, while the 1840 edition records only a "church site of" with no enclosure drawn around it at all. About 120 metres to the north-north-west lies a separate moated site, a class of monument typically associated with Anglo-Norman settlement, suggesting the wider landscape held a degree of medieval activity. Whether the enclosure belongs to that same medieval period, or to an earlier phase of occupation, remains an open question.