That absence is part of what makes it worth knowing about. It sits in rough grazing land, largely unremarked, defined by a low wall of boulders and small stones that has survived to about half a metre in height and less than a metre wide. The interior measures roughly eleven metres by nine, making it a tight, subcircular space whose original purpose remains unspecified. A short distance to the south-west, a semicircular spread of boulders suggests the outline of a second, larger enclosure, this one with an internal diameter of around twenty-two metres, though only the ghost of its wall survives.

Stone enclosures of this kind are a common but poorly understood feature of the Irish upland landscape. They may have served as animal pens, as the foundations of small dwellings, or as enclosures with some more ceremonial function; without excavation, it is rarely possible to say with confidence. What makes this particular site quietly compelling is its position. From here, the view opens northward across Coomaglaslaw and Coomasaharn lakes and along the Behy river valley, a prospect that would have been just as legible to whoever built these walls as it is now. The site was recorded and described by archaeologists A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their 1996 survey of the Iveragh peninsula, published by Cork University Press, which remains the principal reference work for the archaeology of this part of south Kerry.