A later field wall has been built directly over part of its southern and south-western arc, the kind of casual overwriting that happens when an enclosure loses whatever meaning it once held and simply becomes an obstacle, or a convenient source of ready-cut stone.

The enclosure measures approximately twenty metres along its north-west to south-east axis and is defined by a collapsed drystone wall, a construction method that uses stones fitted together without mortar, relying on weight and careful placement alone. Sections of the original wall-facing, the dressed outer surface of the structure, are still visible intermittently, which suggests the enclosure was once a reasonably substantial built feature rather than a casual boundary. Enclosures of this general type in the west of Ireland can range in date from the early medieval period through to relatively recent centuries, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say with confidence what one was for: a farmstead, a livestock pound, a burial ground, or something else entirely. This one has not been pinned down.