It measures roughly three metres wide and two metres deep, running for approximately 180 metres along the northern side of a townland boundary. The feature is thought to be a hollow-way, a type of sunken track formed not by deliberate excavation but by centuries of repeated use, as the passage of feet, hooves, and cart wheels gradually wore the ground down below the level of the surrounding land.

The trench appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, published in 1839, where it is recorded as a linear feature running roughly east to west, parallel to the townland boundary it closely follows. That a cartographer noted it at all suggests it was a visible and reasonably distinct feature of the landscape at the time. The valley it overlooks runs north to south, and the positioning of the hollow-way on the slope above it hints at a route that once connected points across or around that local terrain. Whether the boundary line preceded the track, or whether the track itself influenced where the boundary was eventually drawn, is the kind of question the ground alone cannot answer.