Roughly 12 metres north to south and 8 metres across, it is enclosed on its south-east and south-west sides by an earthen bank that still stands to an internal height of around 1.4 metres, with a laneway forming its north-east boundary. The north-west portion of the bank has been levelled, whether by time, agriculture, or deliberate clearance is not recorded. What makes the enclosure particularly intriguing is a circular stone-lined depression in its south-west quadrant, about 6 metres in from the bank, measuring roughly 1.6 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres deep. It may be the remains of a well.

The Allihies mining complex that neighbours this enclosure was the centre of substantial copper extraction activity on the Beara Peninsula, and O'Brien, writing in 1970, drew attention to this small feature in that broader industrial and landscape context. Enclosures of this kind, defined by earthen banks and sometimes incorporating a well or water source within their bounds, are found across Ireland in a variety of periods and functions, from early medieval farmsteads to post-medieval field boundaries and mine-related infrastructure. Whether this particular example predates the mining era, or was in some way connected to it, is not established. Its relationship to the nearby laneway suggests it was integrated into a working landscape at some point, though the boggy ground around it has presumably helped preserve what remains of the bank.