It is easy to walk past without registering what it is: a low ring of drystone construction, its upper courses long since collapsed and scattered outward along its own perimeter, the level ground inside thick with rushes. At just 8.5 metres in diameter, with walls originally standing around 0.9 metres high and roughly 0.65 metres thick, this is not a grand defensive structure but something more ordinary and, in its way, more quietly telling.

The enclosure sits within a wider field system on a natural terrace, and it does not stand alone. A hut site occupies the western quadrant of the enclosure itself, and two further hut sites lie close by, one approximately ten metres to the north-west and another around thirty-six metres to the west. Hut sites, in the Irish archaeological record, are the remains of simple domestic or agricultural shelters, often associated with seasonal use of upland pasture. The clustering here, with the enclosure and its associated structures set within a field system, suggests a small working landscape, probably used for grazing at some point in the past, its precise date unknown from the available evidence. The drystone technique, walls built without mortar by stacking and fitting stone, was used across a very broad span of Irish history, which makes dating difficult without excavation.

The location itself adds something to the picture. A terrace on a hillside, with a long view south across the Blackwater valley to the bay, is exactly the kind of position that made practical sense for people managing livestock on upland ground. The rushes that now obscure the interior are a reminder that this terrain is wet and marginal, the sort of land that was always worked at the edges of what was viable rather than at the productive centre of any agricultural holding.