The wall survives to only about twenty centimetres in height, though it still runs to between one and a half and three and a half metres wide in places, suggesting something once more substantial than a simple field boundary. What makes the site particularly curious is that nobody has been able to identify where its original entrance was. A structure with no legible doorway tends to raise more questions than it answers.

The enclosure measures roughly 49 metres east to west and 41 metres north to south, and its most revealing feature may be its relationship to a neighbouring monument. The stone wall attaches to the northern side of a court tomb, one of a class of Neolithic megalithic monuments found across the north of Ireland, typically comprising a roofed burial chamber approached through an open ceremonial forecourt. Whether the enclosure was built at the same time as the tomb, in deliberate association with it, or constructed later by a community that treated the older monument as a fixed point of reference, is not established. A drystone field wall running roughly north to south has since been built across the western edge of the enclosure, cutting through it and complicating any reading of the original layout. The plateau setting, looking out over the Glenaniff valley, would have made this a conspicuous location in the landscape long before either structure was raised.