The drystone wall that now defines it is wide, at around 1.35 metres, and to the eye reads as relatively modern. But pressed beneath it, visible internally as a line of collapsed stone, is what appears to be an older structure, suggesting the current wall was built on top of, or directly over, something considerably earlier. It is the kind of site that rewards a second look: what seems like a straightforward field boundary turns out to be a palimpsest, one construction folded over another.

The site has a paper trail of sorts in the cartographic record. The first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows it as a small circular hachured enclosure roughly 30 metres in diameter, the hatching indicating a raised or earthwork feature. By the time the third edition was published in 1922, it had been reduced in the cartographer's eye to a subcircular area defined by a field boundary, as though its archaeological character had been quietly reclassified as something more mundane. What survives on the ground today is smaller still, measuring approximately 22.3 metres on its northeast to southwest axis, overgrown and entered through a gap at the southeast. An enclosure of this general type, a roughly circular area bounded by a stone wall and set on a prominent local feature like a headland, often has early medieval origins in the Irish landscape, though nothing in the surviving record here confirms a specific date or function for the earlier phase beneath the present wall.