The feature runs roughly 56 metres from northwest to southeast, flanked by low earthen banks, and for a long time it was recorded as a hollow-way, the kind of sunken track worn down by centuries of foot and cart traffic. But aerial imagery tells a more ambiguous story. The meandering quality of the earthwork's remains suggests it may never have been a road at all, but rather the ghost of an old watercourse, a managed channel or natural drainage feature whose original purpose has since slipped out of the record.

The feature sits 96 metres west of the River Maigue, which here marks the townland boundary between Ballinfreera and Inchinclare, and 30 metres northeast of the boundary with Ballyphillips. A burial ground lies roughly 250 metres to the northeast, a reminder that this modest stretch of countryside has long been in use. The earthwork was already present when the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch map in 1840, depicted then as a field boundary running the same northwest-to-southeast alignment and extending around 250 metres in length. By the time the 25-inch edition appeared in 1897, that boundary was gone, suggesting it was levelled sometime in the intervening decades, perhaps as farming practices shifted and field layouts were reorganised. The post-1700 field boundaries that intersect the surviving earthwork at either end are a further sign of how this landscape has been reworked in layers. Fiona Rooney, who compiled the site record uploaded in March 2021, noted that traces of the earlier field boundary remain visible on orthophotographs taken between 2005 and 2012, and on a Google Earth image from March 2016, even if they have since faded from more recent satellite views.

There is no formal access to this feature and no marker to seek out. The earthwork sits on private agricultural land and is, in any case, subtle enough that it reads more clearly from the air than from ground level. The most productive way to engage with it is through the aerial sources Rooney references: the Ordnance Survey Ireland orthophotographs and Google Earth imagery, where the meandering cropmark, the faint discolouration in growing crops caused by buried features affecting soil moisture and depth, becomes legible as a sinuous line threading through the field. Cropmarks of this kind tend to show most clearly during dry summers, when differential growth above buried features is at its most pronounced, which may partly explain why the earthwork appears in the 2018 imagery from one date but not another.