Roughly circular and around 100 metres in diameter, the site reveals itself properly only from the air, where the differential growth of crops traces its outline as a crop mark, a phenomenon that occurs when buried earthworks alter the moisture and nutrient content of the soil above them, causing vegetation to grow at slightly different rates and colours. Only on the south-western side does anything betray the structure at ground level, where a bank of earth survives to a height of just 0.25 metres, spread across a width of approximately 9 metres. Walk across the rest of the site and you would have no idea what lay beneath.

The enclosure sits on the east to north-east facing slope of a hill crowned by Glanbane hillfort, roughly 50 metres from the hillfort's outermost element. A hillfort, broadly speaking, is a large prehistoric enclosure defined by earthen or stone ramparts, generally associated with the Iron Age in Ireland, though their dates and functions remain subjects of ongoing research. The proximity of this smaller enclosure to Glanbane raises questions about the relationship between the two sites. Was the enclosure a satellite feature, a settlement, or something else entirely? The site commands clear views to the east and north-east, with the ground rising visibly toward the hillfort to the west and north-west, suggesting that whoever used it was keenly aware of the wider landscape. The description of the site was drawn from Michael Connolly's 2008 PhD thesis on prehistoric settlement in the Lee Valley, Tralee, undertaken at University College Cork, which approached the area from a landscape perspective rather than treating individual monuments in isolation.

For anyone who does make their way to the hillside, the experience is instructive in a particular way. The near-total absence of visible remains is itself the point. Most of what we know about this enclosure exists only because a camera, at the right altitude and in the right season, caught the grass telling a story the soil had been keeping for centuries.