It is the kind of structure that rewards a second look. The bank itself is only sixty centimetres high on its outer face and a little lower inside, and averages around four and a half metres in width. What makes it genuinely puzzling is what it is not: there is no encircling ditch, either inside or outside the bank, which sets it apart from a cashel or caher, the dry-stone walled enclosures common across early medieval Kerry, which were typically built for defence or to protect livestock and would normally show a ditch cut to provide material for the bank. This structure was built differently, for reasons that remain unclear.

Within the enclosure, a raised oval area roughly six metres by four and a half metres, covered in sod and grass, may be the footprint of a stone house, though its exact form cannot be determined from the surface alone. The surrounding limestone bedrock adds a further complication: it is impossible to say whether natural outcrops have been incorporated into the enclosing bank or simply underlie it. Michael Connolly, whose doctoral research on prehistoric settlement in the Lee Valley area of Tralee was completed at University College Cork in 2008, recorded the site as a possible hutsite alongside its classification as an enclosure, which places it tentatively within a domestic rather than a purely defensive or ritual category, though no firm date has been established for its construction or use.

What remains is a quiet ambiguity. The monument has been mapped and measured, the bank described in reasonable detail, but the grass-covered mound at its centre has not been excavated, and the exposed limestone beneath makes reading the landscape unusually difficult. It sits in that category of Irish field monuments that have been noticed but not fully understood, neither easily classified nor entirely forgotten.