Measuring just under eleven metres across, the stones are partly set into the ground rather than built up above it, and the interior settles into a very slight depression, as if the earth itself has exhaled beneath it. It is the kind of feature that rewards a careful eye more than a casual one.

Enclosures of this type, low rings of stone that demarcate a roughly circular area, appear across Ireland in various forms and periods, and their purposes were equally varied: settlement boundaries, ceremonial spaces, animal enclosures, or features associated with burial. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is its company. A second circular enclosure sits roughly five metres to the east, suggesting that whatever activity or intention shaped this part of the hillside, it was not an isolated impulse. O'Shea and Crowley noted both features in 1972, recording them in the boggy terrain where preservation is often better than in more cultivated ground, the waterlogged conditions slowing the decay of buried material and keeping shallow stone settings relatively undisturbed over long periods.