Roughly built and barely three metres across internally, it belongs to a category of ancient stone enclosures found throughout Ireland whose precise function often remains unclear, somewhere between a small animal pen, a field boundary feature, and something with an older, less easily labelled purpose.

The structure measures 2.9 metres by 2.8 metres on its interior, making it tight enough that only a few people could stand within it comfortably. On its western side there is a possible entrance gap, around 0.7 metres wide, just enough for a person to pass through sideways. The rough construction sets it apart from the more carefully coursed stonework of enclosures built with obvious civic or defensive intent. Circular enclosures of this kind, sometimes called cashels when they are larger and more solidly built, appear throughout the south-west of Ireland and are associated broadly with early medieval farming and settlement, though smaller examples like this one are harder to date or assign a clear use. The site was documented as part of the archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, a systematic effort to record the extraordinary density of ancient remains in south Kerry, published by Cork University Press in 1996 and compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan.