What makes this site quietly odd is the layering: a later, square enclosure has been built directly over the earlier one, so that two very different periods of land use occupy the same modest patch of ground. The whole area measures just 12 metres north to south and 19 metres east to west, and the original circular boundary bank is now legible only at its north-eastern arc, where large blocky boulders, sod-covered and reduced to a single surviving course, hint at what once stood here.

The circular form, recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map, is the kind of enclosure found widely across early medieval Ireland, typically used to define a farmstead or small settlement. Here, though, that earlier phase has been further complicated by what may be the remnants of a hut tucked beneath the north-eastern side of the later square enclosure, suggesting the site was occupied, modified, and built over across more than one period. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, compiling their archaeological survey of South Kerry for Cork University Press in 1996, recorded the site as poorly preserved even then, sitting on a slight rise with views out towards Darrynane Bay to the south-west, the kind of modest vantage point that early settlers across Ireland frequently chose for enclosures of this type. The dense thicket that now surrounds it has only added to its obscurity.