It sits on open mountain terrain, unremarked and untrailed, an oval of drystone walling built from boulders and large slabs set on edge. The wall runs to roughly a metre in height and a metre in width, enclosing an area of about 12 by 10 metres. At its centre, the remains of a circular hut survive; the interior diameter is just 2.5 metres, the walls reduced now to little more than 30 centimetres above the ground. The scale of it is domestic, even intimate, but the location raises quiet questions about who built it, and why, and for how long anyone called this exposed hillside home.

Drystone enclosures of this kind, built without mortar and relying on the careful selection and placement of stone, are found across upland Ireland and often prove difficult to date with confidence. They could belong to early medieval farming activity, to seasonal transhumance, the practice of moving livestock to higher pastures in summer, or to later periods of land use pressure. The Bridia Valley sits within the Iveragh Peninsula, one of the most archaeologically dense landscapes in Ireland, and this enclosure was recorded and described by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their archaeological survey of south Kerry, published by Cork University Press in 1996. The circular hut at the enclosure's centre is a common feature of such sites; small, single-roomed structures of this type served as shelters for those watching over animals, or as more permanent dwellings in periods when upland ground was more intensively worked than it is today.