What was once substantial enough to be mapped in 1842 as a lozenge-shaped enclosure with clear hachuring, the cartographic convention used to indicate raised or embanked features, has since been ploughed almost flat. Today, the site survives as a roughly circular area measuring about 27 metres east to west and 25 metres north to south, defined by a low scarp no more than half a metre at its highest, with a shallow external fosse, or ditch, still just perceptible at the margins.

The site's history as an object of study is itself a little tangled. Successive Ordnance Survey maps from 1842, 1905, and 1937 each recorded it differently, with the later editions showing a hachured arc suggesting a semicircular fosse of around 50 metres in diameter running from west-south-west to east-south-east. Because of this cartographic evidence, the site was included in T. B. Barry's 1981 survey of moated sites for County Cork. Moated sites are typically medieval enclosures surrounded by a water-filled or wet ditch, often associated with Anglo-Norman settlement in Ireland from the late twelfth century onwards. Barry listed this as a candidate, though the classification rested on map evidence alone rather than excavation or fieldwork. Aerial photography has since revealed the enclosure more clearly as a cropmark, the buried fosse showing up as a difference in crop growth, with what appears to be an entrance gap to the north. Additional linear cropmarks to the south and east may represent levelled field boundaries, and a second enclosure lies in the eastern half of the same field.