It has no entrance, no obvious threshold, no gap in the ditch where a person might once have passed through. That absence is itself a clue. Ring-ditches, which are circular ditches often all that survives of a prehistoric burial mound after centuries of ploughing have levelled the central mound above them, tend to mark the edge of something that once held the dead. The lack of any entrance gap here is consistent with that interpretation: this was not a space designed for the living to move in and out of.

The feature measures roughly 15.5 metres in external diameter, with a ditch approximately 2 metres wide tracing its circumference. It was recorded and compiled by archaeologist Tom Condit, with the record uploaded in April 2021. What makes the Stephenstown site particularly interesting is its company. A large enclosure sits roughly 114 metres to the north-north-west, catalogued separately in the Sites and Monuments Record as DU005-189. A second, smaller ring-ditch lies only about 29.8 metres to the south-south-east, recorded as DU005-187. Clusters like this are not unusual in Irish archaeology; funerary and ceremonial monuments from the Bronze Age onward were often sited in loose groupings, suggesting that a place, once marked as significant, continued to attract use across generations.

The site is not accessible as a formal heritage attraction and sits within active farmland, so any visit would require care and appropriate permissions. For those curious enough to look before travelling, it is clearly visible on Google Earth imagery from May 2017, where the circular cropmark shows well against the surrounding field. Cropmarks of this kind appear when differential soil conditions above buried ditches cause overlying vegetation to grow at slightly different rates, making the buried archaeology readable from above even when nothing is visible at ground level. That view from above, in this case, may be the most revealing one available.