The wall that traces its perimeter barely rises above knee height at its tallest, and in places it has sunk so far into the ground that the enclosure reveals itself more as a subtle change in the land than as any obvious ancient structure. What catches the eye, if you know to look, is a single upright slab on the western edge, standing a metre high and oriented north to south, like a quiet marker keeping its own counsel.

The enclosure measures roughly twenty metres east to west and fourteen metres north to south, giving it a broadly oval shape typical of the kind of small stone-walled enclosures found throughout Cork and Kerry. These structures, sometimes associated with early medieval settlement or agricultural organisation, are notoriously difficult to date without excavation, and this one is no exception. The ground rises steeply to the east behind it, while to the west the slope opens out across a valley towards Mullaghmesha. That western aspect, and the terrace on which the enclosure sits, would have made it a practical as well as a commanding position for whoever built and used it. A second enclosure adjoins it directly at the western perimeter, suggesting this was once part of a larger organised arrangement of space rather than a single isolated feature.