This trapezoidal enclosure, measuring roughly 51 metres east to west and just under 50 metres north to south, consists of a low earthen bank surrounding a level interior space. The bank, which reaches its most impressive height of 1.65 metres at the southwest corner, is accompanied by an external fosse, or defensive ditch, that still holds water in places, particularly on the northern side where it reaches depths of over a metre.

Time and human intervention have altered this ancient site considerably. According to local accounts, the bank was deliberately lowered at some point in the past, with the excavated material spread across the interior to create the level surface now used for cattle grazing. The surviving earthwork shows clear signs of modification, including a 3.1 metre wide break in the southern section near the southwest corner, which may have served as an entrance or resulted from later agricultural activity. Despite these changes, the site retains enough of its original form to hint at its defensive or settlement purpose.

First documented by Barry in 1981 and later included in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, this enclosure represents one of many such earthworks scattered across the North Cork landscape. While its exact age and original function remain uncertain, the combination of bank and fosse construction suggests it may have served as a ringfort; a type of defended farmstead common in early medieval Ireland. Today, cattle graze where people once lived, worked, and perhaps defended their small corner of Cork’s rolling countryside.