It sits on a natural ledge, built into the gradient of the mountain rather than imposed upon flat ground, as though whoever constructed it was working with the hillside rather than against it. The enclosing wall, built in the drystone tradition of stacking unmortared stone, survives to a height of 0.7 metres and a width of 1.2 metres, and the interior space it defines measures roughly 6.8 metres north to south and 9.1 metres east to west, placing it firmly in the category of small enclosures found across the upland margins of Ireland.

What such enclosures were actually used for is rarely straightforward to determine. On the Iveragh Peninsula, the mountainous spine of south Kerry that forms one of the great fingers of land reaching into the Atlantic, enclosures of this type have been interpreted variously as animal pounds, seasonal farming enclosures, or features associated with transhumance, the practice of moving livestock to higher ground during summer months. The absence of this particular structure from the OS maps is itself telling; it suggests a feature that either fell out of use and memory before systematic mapping in the nineteenth century, or was simply too modest to attract a cartographer's attention. Its situation on a ledge partway up a slope, a short distance uphill from a previously recorded site, points to a landscape that was once worked and organised in ways that are now largely invisible at ground level.