Roughly 80 metres in diameter, it is ringed by trees but open at its centre, a grassy interior that gives little away about whatever purpose the enclosure originally served. Circular enclosures of this kind are common enough in the Irish landscape, ranging in origin from prehistoric ringforts, which were typically defended farmsteads, to later ecclesiastical or ceremonial sites, and this one offers no obvious surface features to settle the question.

What can be said with some certainty is that the enclosure has been in the landscape for a very long time. It appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, which means it was already a recognisable feature when the surveyors came through, and it was recorded again on the revision carried out between 1899 and 1902. The surrounding land is given over to pasture and tillage, much as it likely was for centuries, and the Nore continues its course to the west. The fact that the enclosure survived two centuries of agricultural activity with its basic form intact suggests it has a certain solidity beneath the grass, even if the earthworks are not dramatic to the eye.