The enclosure here exists primarily as a cropmark, a circular impression roughly 52 metres in diameter that becomes legible only from the air, when differences in soil moisture and plant growth betray the buried outline of a fosse, the term for the ditch that once defined the boundary of an ancient enclosure. Walk the improved pasture that covers the site today and you would have no reason to suspect that anything lay beneath your feet. The monument does not appear on any historic Ordnance Survey Ireland maps, which means it passed entirely unrecorded through the era of systematic Irish cartography.

The site came to light in 1986, when an aerial photographic survey centred on the nearby town of Bruff captured what was catalogued as image Bruff 106.05, reference AP 4/3620. That survey identified the circular form as an enclosure, and subsequent aerial sources have confirmed it. Both an OSi orthophoto taken between 2005 and 2012 and a Google Earth image dated 18 November 2018 show the cropmark clearly, defined by its fosse. The surrounding landscape adds context: another earthwork sits roughly 30 metres to the north, and a cluster of barrows, low mounded burial monuments, lies about 70 metres to the north-east. The grouping suggests this was a meaningful patch of ground at some point in the past, though the notes do not assign a specific period or function to the enclosure itself. The record was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded in April 2021.

The enclosure has been cut into from several directions by later land management. A linear field drain running north-east to south-west truncates the monument at its northern edge, a second drain of the same orientation cuts across the south-east, and further drains running north-west to south-east affect the southern portion. For anyone curious enough to visit, the site is in agricultural land and there is nothing on the surface to orient yourself by. The aerial images available through Google Earth remain the most practical way to appreciate the form. The cropmark tends to show most clearly in dry summers, when stressed vegetation above the filled fosse grows differently from the surrounding grass, briefly making the ancient boundary visible again.