Roughly D-shaped in outline, measuring approximately eight metres north to south and twenty metres east to west, it sits just south of a field boundary and shows no trace on any of the Ordnance Survey Ireland historic maps. For a long time, it simply did not exist on paper.

The site came to official attention in 2016, when Sarah McCutcheon, executive archaeologist with Limerick City and County Council, identified it as a possible enclosure. Enclosures of this kind are among the most common, and most varied, monument types in the Irish landscape; they could represent the boundaries of an early settlement, a stock enclosure, or something more ceremonial, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say which. What pushed the site onto the record was aerial evidence: the sunken D-shaped form became legible on Ordnance Survey Ireland orthophotos taken between 2005 and 2012. A later Google Earth image from November 2018 added another layer of interest, showing a faint circular cropmark extending northward behind a modern dwelling. Cropmarks form when buried features, such as ditches or walls, affect how grass or crops grow above them, producing tonal differences that are only visible from the air. The site sits in a notably busy corner of the archaeological landscape, with a further earthwork recorded approximately sixty metres to the north-west and two more lying just twenty metres to the south-east and south respectively.

The earthwork is on private agricultural land and is not formally open to visitors. It is the kind of site that rewards patient looking rather than dramatic spectacle; the ground-level impression is simply a gentle hollow in a grazing field, easy to miss without prior knowledge of its shape and orientation. The clearest sense of the monument comes from aerial imagery rather than a walk across the grass. Those with a particular interest in the site can consult the record compiled by Fiona Rooney, uploaded to the National Monuments Service database in April 2021, which includes reference to the Google Earth orthoimage that first revealed the cropmark detail.