Furze and gorse have closed over it so completely that it is now effectively inaccessible, a five-metre ring of unknown age hidden inside a thicket that gives nothing away.

The 1895 Ordnance Survey six-inch map marks the feature plainly enough, labelling it a circular enclosure with the pragmatic annotation "Sheepfold". That name tells you what Victorian-era surveyors made of it, though the classification as an archaeological enclosure suggests the structure may have a considerably older origin. Small circular enclosures of this kind appear throughout Kerry and the wider south-west, and their purposes vary considerably, ranging from early medieval farmstead boundaries to animal pens of much later date. Whether this one was ever anything more than a fold for sheep, the landscape setting is suggestive: a sheltered southerly slope with long views across the bay, the kind of ground that has been worked and watched over for a very long time.