The enclosure measures approximately 30 metres on its northeast to southwest axis and around 26.7 metres northwest to southeast, making it a modest but coherent subcircular form of the kind typically associated with a rath, the most common type of early medieval settlement monument in Ireland. A rath is essentially a farmstead enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, home to a farming family perhaps a thousand or more years ago. This one had simply escaped formal attention until satellite imagery gave it away.

It was Jean-Charles Caillère who first identified the enclosure, spotting it on Google Earth imagery dated March 2018 and bringing it forward for recording. The monument is not entirely intact. A field boundary running northwest to southeast cuts across the enclosing element at its north-northwest and north-northeast, the kind of agricultural intrusion that has altered or erased countless such sites across the Irish landscape over centuries of land division and reuse. That a modern field boundary now clips the edge of what may be an early medieval farmstead enclosure is a small but telling detail about how long this land has been worked and reworked by successive generations with little reason to notice what lay beneath the grass.