No earthwork rises from the ground, no wall or ditch interrupts the grass. The only reason we know it exists at all is that a surveyor, working for the first edition Ordnance Survey in 1838, recorded it on his six-inch map using hachures, the fine radiating lines cartographers used to indicate earthworks and surface features. Whatever was visible then has since levelled off entirely, leaving the site present in the record but absent from the landscape.

The enclosure was oval in plan, measuring approximately 22 metres by 18 metres, a modest but not insignificant size. Enclosures of this type are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish countryside, and their purposes varied widely, from settlement and farmstead enclosures of the early medieval period to prehistoric ritual or boundary features. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is that it does not stand alone. Two further enclosures of similar character lie close by on the same slope, suggesting that whatever activity shaped this corner of Wicklow was sustained or repeated over time, or that a small cluster of related structures once occupied the hillside together. The trio has been catalogued separately, but their proximity gives the site a coherence it would otherwise lack.