That transition, from rough boggy pasture to impenetrable plantation, happened quickly enough that within thirteen years of the structure being formally recorded it had already disappeared from practical view. The enclosure itself is modest in scale, a circular arrangement roughly twelve metres across, but its construction is deliberate and considered: two parallel rows of upright stone slabs forming a wall about a metre thick and standing to around eighty centimetres in height, with a narrow entrance, just one metre wide, facing east.

The site was recorded in 1992, the details passed on by a local contact named Connie Murphy, and it sits within the townland of Coumaclavlig, a place-name whose Irish roots suggest a rocky or cleft hollow. Stone enclosures of this kind, essentially a circular boundary defined by a drystone or slab-built wall, appear throughout Cork and Kerry in various forms and periods. They could have served as livestock enclosures, as territorial markers, or as features associated with earlier settlement, though without excavation it is impossible to say which applies here. What distinguishes this particular example is less its form than its fate: by 2005, when archaeologists returned to the site, the forestry plantation surrounding it had grown dense enough to make access impossible.