The site was recorded on the 1924 Ordnance Survey six-inch map as an embanked circular enclosure roughly 45 metres in diameter, but at some point after that survey it was levelled, leaving nothing obvious for a walker to encounter underfoot. What saved it from complete obscurity was the soil itself: the buried remains create a cropmark, a phenomenon where differences in soil depth and moisture cause overlying crops or grass to grow in subtly different colours or heights, tracing the outline of a buried structure when seen from above.

The cropmark, spotted in aerial photography taken by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland on 13 September 2002, revealed something unexpected about this monument. Simon Dowling brought a significant detail to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland on 9 July 2013: the cropmark suggests the enclosure may not be a straightforward ring barrow at all, but rather a henge-type monument. The distinction matters because in a henge, the ditch or fosse runs on the inside of the enclosing bank rather than the outside, which is an unusual and deliberately counterintuitive arrangement found in certain Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial sites. The record was subsequently compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2013, placing the site formally in the archaeological inventory.

Because the earthwork has been levelled, there is little to observe at ground level, and the site is not marked or interpreted for visitors. The aerial photographs held by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland under reference ASIAP 306/15 through 20 and 26 remain the clearest evidence of the monument's form. Anyone with a serious interest in the site would be better served by consulting those records or the National Monuments Service database than by walking the field itself, where the surviving archaeology lies entirely beneath the surface, legible only to the crop above it and the camera that caught it on a September morning over two decades ago.