A series of low earthen banks and scarps, some forming narrow terraces along the slope, only became legible when seen from the air, their arrangement suggesting a settlement landscape that had quietly persisted beneath agricultural use for centuries.

The site came to attention in August 1984 through aerial reconnaissance, which revealed that several of these banks appear to radiate outward from a central enclosure, the kind of roughly circular earthwork, defined by a bank and ditch, that was a common unit of early Irish rural settlement. Two further curvilinear enclosures were also identified approximately 100 metres to the south, one measuring around 22 metres east to west and another about 50 metres across. Each is defined differently, one by a scarp and one by a bank, suggesting they may not be contemporary with one another, or that different construction methods were used at different points in the site's life. The whole complex sits in association with a nearby early church, lending the area the character of a small ecclesiastical and domestic cluster rather than a single isolated monument. A modern field boundary running north-east to south-west cuts across both of the southern enclosures, partly overlying them and obscuring what survives. North of that boundary, little or nothing remains visible.