Known locally as a ceallúnach, a term for unconsecrated ground traditionally used to inter unbaptised infants, the site looks out over the Emlaghmore river valley and the wide arc of Ballinskelligs Bay to the south-east. Its absence from official cartography is part of what defines places like this: ceallúnaigh existed at the edge of formal religious practice, used by families who had no other sanctioned option for burying children who died before baptism. They are scattered across Ireland, often unmarked, often remembered only in local knowledge passed quietly between generations.

The enclosure itself has been cut in two by a north-south field boundary, and whatever once stood on the western side has not survived. On the eastern side, a drystone bank, faced on both its inner and outer surfaces and averaging 1.3 metres wide, still stands to a maximum external height of half a metre. Within that surviving arc, with an internal diameter of roughly 16.5 metres, lies the most striking feature of the site: an area approximately 12 metres by 7 metres containing neatly arranged rows of upright stone slabs. The orderliness of it, the quiet geometry, speaks to repeated and careful use over time. A low L-shaped bank just to the west of this area may represent the foundation remains of a small building. Just south of the enclosure, on the western side of the field boundary, there is also a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage of the kind frequently associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland. Its entrance, a lintelled opening measuring 65 centimetres by 25 centimetres and facing south, gives access to an earthen-sided passage extending northward, though the passage itself has not been examined internally.