The site is not marked by any visible earthwork or upstanding structure; what gives it away is a cropmark, the phenomenon where buried features subtly affect how plants above them grow, producing variations in colour or height that are invisible at ground level but readable from the air. In this case, an aerial photograph captured two concentric fosses, or ditches, forming a roughly circular enclosure of approximately forty metres in diameter lying on a gentle slope facing east-south-east.

The enclosure belongs to a wider concentration of similar features in the same field. A ring-ditch and a second circular enclosure are visible within roughly sixty to seventy metres to the south and south-east, suggesting that this corner of north Cork was at some point a place of recurring or sustained activity, though the period of use is not specified in what survives about the site. Circular enclosures of this general type are found throughout Ireland and can date to anywhere from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period; they served variously as settlement enclosures, ritual sites, or burial monuments, and without excavation it is difficult to say more about function or date. What is clear is that the land here, under mature barley when the aerial photograph was taken, preserves at least three distinct sub-surface features within a relatively compact area, an unusual density that hints at a long or layered history of use in this particular stretch of ground.