The site sits on a natural terrace in rough heather-clad hill pasture, and the builders solved the problem of the hillslope in two ways simultaneously: they cut half a metre into the uphill side and raised the opposite end by roughly twenty centimetres, so that the enclosed ground reads flat despite the gradient. The drystone wall that defines the space, a technique of stacking stone without mortar, is well-constructed rather than cursory, standing 1.4 metres high and 0.8 metres thick, with a straight northeast side nearly nine metres long and a narrow entrance, just 1.4 metres wide, facing that same direction.

The enclosure sits in a broader landscape of activity. Two hut sites lie about forty metres to the south, another is roughly the same distance to the north, and the traces of a relict field wall survive about a hundred metres to the northeast. Taken together, these elements suggest a small cluster of settlement or agricultural use, the kind of dispersed upland landscape that was once far more densely occupied than it appears today. The whole complex lies to the west of The Paps of Dana, the twin rounded hills in east Kerry whose name refers to the goddess Anu or Dana from early Irish tradition, and which have long been associated with the mythology of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Whether the enclosure dates to the early medieval period or some other phase of upland land use is not recorded, but the careful effort to engineer a level interior suggests it was intended for more than casual or temporary use.