Local accounts describe a proper circle of stones, with two upright slabs roughly one and a half metres tall standing as gateposts at the south-eastern entrance. What remains is a roughly flattened natural platform, about 21 metres north to south and 22.6 metres east to west, ringed by loose, tumbled stonework that may once have been set edge to edge in a continuous wall. The view northward opens across Coulagh Bay and the Kenmare River, which suggests the site was chosen with some care for its position in the landscape rather than simply for convenience.

The damage to the site is datable and specific. Around 1941, road construction to the north disturbed the enclosure and led to the removal of many of its stones. This kind of loss is not unusual in rural Ireland, where field clearance and infrastructure works throughout the twentieth century quietly dismantled prehistoric and early medieval enclosures whose original purpose was not always recognised, or not always considered. Enclosures of this form, defined by a roughly circular stone wall enclosing a flat interior, are a broad category in Irish archaeology, variously associated with settlement, stock management, or ritual use depending on their context and associated finds. Two further enclosures survive to the south-east, which means this part of the Caherkeen landscape was once occupied by a cluster of such structures, each with its own orientation and outlook.