What marks it out is not dramatic ruin but rather a layering of religious use across centuries, compressed into a modest oval of ground measuring roughly 42 metres by 39 metres internally. The shape itself is telling: D-shaped or sub-circular enclosures of this kind are widely associated with early medieval ecclesiastical sites in Ireland, the curved boundary being a characteristic form of the early Christian period rather than later, more rectilinear organisation.

The enclosure's boundary survives in various states. To the west, an original earthen and stony bank is still legible, standing about a metre high on its outer face and considerably lower on the interior, with a width of around two and a half metres. This same bank, it turns out, was not entirely swept away when later stone walls were built along the northern edge; its remnants actually underlie that later construction, meaning the old boundary was reused rather than erased. The southern limit is defined not by a built feature but by a natural or cut scarp nearly four metres high. Within this enclosed space, a burial area occupies the centre, marked by numerous small uninscribed stones, none more than about eighteen centimetres wide, pressed into the ground as grave-markers. Their anonymity is not unusual in older Irish burial grounds, particularly those outside the formal parish system. Two other features catch the attention: a slab with a cross inscribed on its face, and a large boulder known locally as a mass-rock. Mass-rocks are boulders or flat stones used as improvised altars during the Penal era, roughly the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Catholic worship was suppressed and priests celebrated Mass outdoors and in secret. Whether this particular boulder was genuinely used in that way or whether the name preserves a longer memory of the site's sacred character is not recorded, but the association itself speaks to the continuity of religious meaning attached to this small, forested enclosure on the slopes above the Caragh valley.