Somewhere in the coniferous plantations of Loughdeheen, a patch of scrub-covered ground has been left unplanted, and within that gap sits an early ecclesiastical enclosure that the surrounding forestry has quietly swallowed from view. The site is subcircular in shape, roughly 120 metres east to west and 100 metres north to south, and it is defined by a system of concentric earthworks: an inner earthen bank, an outer fosse (a defensive or boundary ditch), and a further external bank running along the eastern and southern sides. This layered arrangement is characteristic of early Irish monastic or ecclesiastical enclosures, where the boundary itself carried ritual as well as practical significance, marking a transition between the sacred interior and the ordinary world outside.

Nested against the inside of the eastern bank is a smaller rectangular enclosure, roughly 45 by 29 metres, defined by a low stone wall still standing between half a metre and a metre high. Within it lie the foundations of a two-cell building, the kind of modest structure associated with early Irish ecclesiastical settlements, where a small oratory or chapel might adjoin a single domestic cell. A bullaun stone was once recorded here too; bullauns are boulders or stones bearing one or more rounded depressions, often associated with early Christian sites and thought to have served liturgical or curative functions, but this one can no longer be located. Around 50 metres south of the building foundations, a holy well survives, one of the most durable features of early Irish religious sites, frequently outlasting every other structure associated with them.

The site sits towards the bottom of a west-facing slope, enclosed now by commercial forestry that has grown up around it on all sides. The cleared area preserves the enclosure from direct damage, but the tree cover means the earthworks read differently depending on the season, with the fosse and banks becoming more legible in winter when undergrowth dies back. The scrub within the enclosure itself obscures much of the detail at ground level, so the full geometry of the site is easier to appreciate with a map or plan in hand than by walking it alone.