From the north around to the south-west, the enclosing element is reasonably clear, defined by stones roughly sixty centimetres thick and forty centimetres high. The rest of the circuit, from south-west back around to the north, has all but dissolved into the ground, leaving only faint traces. What remains is enough to establish the shape: a roughly circular enclosure with an internal diameter of about twenty-six metres and a nearly level interior.

Enclosures of this kind, sometimes associated with early medieval settlement, were built to define and protect a domestic space, keeping livestock in or at least marking a boundary with some intention behind it. At Baurearagh, the survival of the structure is uneven, partly because the bog has swallowed portions of whatever once stood. Inside the enclosure, set against the boundary wall on the south-east side, the remains of a hut site are still detectable. The fact that the hut abuts the enclosing element from within suggests it was either contemporary with the boundary or built deliberately in its shelter, tucking into the curve of the wall for whatever protection that offered against the Kerry weather and the openness of the valley.