It does not announce itself. What a visitor would see is a subcircular earthen platform, roughly 19.5 metres east to west and 16.5 metres north to south, rising to about two metres in height. Along its summit, faint traces of a bank survive on the eastern to south-eastern arc, hinting that the mound was once enclosed or defined in some way. It is the kind of feature that rewards a second look.

The 1932 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded a rather larger oval enclosure at this spot, measuring approximately 35 metres by 25 metres, with a small hollow at its south-eastern end. That difference in scale between the mapped enclosure and what remains today is itself suggestive: some of the outer earthwork appears to have been lost, likely to the gradual improvement and drainage of the surrounding land. The hollow noted on the map is thought to have been a shallow quarry pit rather than anything of archaeological significance, though even that detail belongs to the broader picture of a place that has been slowly modified over time. What the platform originally was, whether a settlement enclosure, a ringfort, or something else entirely, remains uncertain. Ringforts, which are roughly circular enclosed farmsteads dating mostly from the early medieval period, are common across Ireland, but this site has not been definitively classified as one.