The structure is a subcircular enclosure, meaning a roughly circular wall of stacked or placed stone, and this one is modest even by the unassuming standards of such things: an internal diameter of just under three metres, the wall standing about sixty centimetres high and seventy centimetres thick. That is barely the size of a large room, and the construction is described as rough rather than refined, the boulders placed without any obvious dressing or careful coursework.

Enclosures of this kind appear throughout Ireland and can serve a range of purposes, from livestock pens to the foundations of vanished structures to features associated with early settlement activity. Without excavation it is rarely possible to say with confidence what any individual example was for, and this one is no exception. What the archaeological record does tell us is that it sits to the east of at least one other recorded feature in the same area, suggesting it was not a solitary presence in the landscape but part of a wider pattern of past activity in this corner of Kerry. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan documented it as part of their survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press in 1996, which remains one of the more thorough attempts to map the dense and varied archaeology of this part of the southwest.