It is not a fort in any dramatic sense, nor a church enclosure, nor a field boundary that grew ambitious. It is simply an embanked enclosure, a type of roughly circular earthwork or stone-defined area found across Ireland whose original purpose, whether domestic, agricultural, or ritual, often resists easy categorisation. This one has two entrance gaps, each about a metre and a half wide, positioned at the south and east sides of the circuit, suggesting considered design rather than casual construction.

The enclosure overlooks the Wicklow Gap, the natural mountain pass that cuts north to south through the uplands, and sits with a small stream running roughly parallel to it about 150 metres to the east. That combination, elevated prospect, access to water, and a position commanding a significant routeway, hints at a location chosen with some deliberation. The wall itself survives to between half a metre and a metre in height, with a width of between one and a half and two and a half metres at various points, enough to suggest that what remains is a reduced version of something originally more substantial. The enclosure appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1841 and 1924, recorded in essentially the same form, which tells us that it had already settled into its current ruined state well before either survey was made.