Measuring roughly fourteen metres north to south and twelve and a half metres east to west, it is modest in scale, yet the variation in its walling tells its own story. The northern to south-eastern arc is formed by contiguous stones laid low to the ground, rising only about thirty-five centimetres, while the south-east to northern stretch is built in roughly coursed stonework standing over a metre high. The two distinct construction styles within a single enclosure suggest either different phases of use, different practical needs on different sides, or simply pragmatic builders making use of what the hillside offered. A possible entrance opens to the west, and within the interior, the faint corrugations of old cultivation ridges still run on an east-west axis, the physical memory of someone once working this ground.

Enclosures of this kind are scattered across the Irish landscape and are notoriously difficult to date without excavation. They may have served as small farmsteads, stock enclosures, or garden plots at various points between the prehistoric and post-medieval periods. What adds a particular dimension to this one is its proximity to a wedge tomb located approximately a hundred and fifty metres to the north-north-west. Wedge tombs are megalithic burial monuments, typically dating to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age, characterised by a burial chamber that narrows and lowers toward one end. Whether the enclosure has any relationship to that earlier monument, or whether the two simply share a good piece of hillside across thousands of years of separate occupation, is an open question. The cultivation ridges inside the enclosure suggest at least one episode of agricultural use, overlaying whatever earlier purpose the structure may have served.