The enclosure measures roughly 22 metres across, and its defining feature, beyond its age and ambiguity, is the care taken in its original construction: the northern portion of the interior was deliberately raised to level it against the natural fall of the hillside, a small engineering decision that speaks to whoever once found this circle worth maintaining.

Circular enclosures of this kind are found throughout Ireland and can date from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period, serving variously as settlement enclosures, ritual spaces, or farmstead boundaries. This one is defined partly by an eroded earth and stone bank, now standing only about 0.4 metres above the interior surface, and partly by a natural or modified scarp on the northern and western sides that rises to around a metre. The southwest and west arcs have lost their earthen body almost entirely, leaving only the stone revetment, the facing material that once held the bank in shape, as the sole indicator of where the boundary ran. A later field boundary, running on a north-south axis, cuts across the eastern half of the interior, a reminder that this landscape has been divided and redivided by successive generations of farming long after whoever built the enclosure had gone.