What makes it worth pausing over is not its scale, which is modest at roughly six metres east to west and four metres north to south, but the quiet legibility of its construction. The builders worked in a drystone technique, meaning no mortar was used, laying large stones as the lower courses and topping them with smaller ones. Three sides survive as collapsed wall, still traceable on the east, south, and west, while the north side borrows a pre-existing field wall running roughly west-northwest to east-southeast. The result is a tidy, practical enclosure that used the landscape rather than fighting it.

The purpose of such a structure is not definitively recorded, but rectangular drystone enclosures of this kind in Kerry are typically associated with agricultural or pastoral use, possibly as a small pen for livestock or a sheltered working space. What lends the site a little more texture is the field immediately to the north, where cultivation ridges are still visible on the ground, each between roughly 2.2 and 2.6 metres wide. These ridges, formed by the repeated turning of soil in lazy-bed or ridge-and-furrow cultivation, point to a time when this rough upland ground was being actively worked. The enclosure and the ridged field together suggest a small farming presence pushing into marginal land, the kind of low, patient effort that is easy to miss in the broader landscape but which shaped hillsides across rural Ireland for centuries.