A small subcircular enclosure, roughly eleven and a half metres across at its widest, had gone unnoticed at ground level until aerial reconnaissance by Markus Casey in August 1999 revealed its outline on a gentle rise in the landscape. An enclosure of this kind, a roughly circular area defined by an earthen bank, is a feature found widely across Ireland and is generally understood to relate to early settlement or agricultural activity, though precise dating without excavation is difficult to establish.

What survives today is modest but legible. The enclosure is defined by a low bank, about five metres wide, which rises to just over half a metre on its outer face. The best-preserved arc runs from the north-west around to the north-east, while a large gap of some seven and a half metres opens to the east-north-east, possibly an original entrance or a later break. What makes the site more than just an isolated earthwork is its relationship to the surrounding landscape: field banks belonging to an associated field system radiate outward from the enclosure to the south and west-north-west, suggesting it once sat at the centre of a organised pattern of land use. A further field wall extending to the east-north-east has been cut through by a trackway, one of the small collisions between older and more recent use of the land that are common across rural Ireland. Roughly sixty metres to the south-west, a second enclosure occupies the same low terrain, the two features sitting quietly together on ground that most people would cross without a second glance.