What survives is little more than a scarp, a slight drop in the ground that traces a rough subcircular outline measuring roughly 27 metres north to south and just over 25 metres east to west. A scarp, in this context, is simply a low slope or bank edge left where the original enclosing earthwork has eroded down over centuries. There is no dramatic wall, no obvious ring of raised earth. The northern portion is gone entirely, cut through by a later field boundary, leaving the monument split and difficult to read even for someone who knows what they are looking for.

Enclosures of this general type are found throughout Ireland and were built across a long stretch of prehistory and the early medieval period. They served various purposes, from settlement and farming to ritual use, and their circular or subcircular forms are one of the most common, and most quietly persistent, shapes in the Irish archaeological record. The Woodlawn example sits within a demesne landscape, meaning the estate parkland that surrounded a large house, which means later landscaping and planting have likely contributed to the poor state of preservation. The field boundary that bisects the northern edge of the monument is a reminder of how ordinary agricultural activity, repeated across generations, can quietly dismantle what earlier generations built.