When archaeologists visited in September 1982, there was nothing to find at eye level, only a silage pit where the interior of a once-substantial earthwork should have been. And yet the site is clearly there, visible from above as a cropmark, a phenomenon that occurs when buried features influence how vegetation grows over them, producing bands of darker or lighter colour detectable in aerial photography. In this case, the outline appears as a darker band of vegetation, tracing a large subcircular shape measuring roughly 77 metres across.

The enclosure was recorded on the old Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, which means it was a recognisable feature in the landscape at some point in the nineteenth century. What the maps show is a wide gap at the south-west, which may have been an original entrance, and an overall form consistent with the kind of substantial enclosures found across Ireland that served various purposes over the centuries, from secular settlement to ceremonial use. Whether this particular example belonged to the Iron Age, early medieval period, or another era entirely is difficult to say without excavation. By 1982, whatever earthen banks or ditches once defined it had been levelled, and a large agricultural shed has since been built inside what was once the enclosure's boundary, completing the transformation of the site from landscape feature to working farmland.