The structure measures just ten metres east to west and eight metres north to south, and whoever put it together made an economical decision at the southern boundary: rather than haul and stack more stone, they simply used the face of a natural rock outcrop as a ready-made wall. The remaining three sides are defined by low stone walling, surviving to a maximum height of just over half a metre, with larger stones placed at the west, north, and east. The whole thing sits in a sheltered hollow, which suggests deliberate choice of location rather than accident.

Enclosures of this type are common enough across the Cork landscape, typically associated with early medieval or later pastoral activity, used to pen animals, protect small garden plots, or demarcate a domestic space around a dwelling. What makes this one quietly interesting is its relationship to a companion site a short distance away: a hut site sits roughly twenty metres to the north, catalogued separately but clearly part of the same small human footprint on the hillside. Together, the two features suggest a modest habitation, someone living and working on this exposed Beara Peninsula slope, making use of what the rock offered and building only what was strictly necessary.