It is not a field boundary, not quite a fort in the conventional sense, and yet it has clearly been built with deliberate care. Its bank, between 1.7 and 2 metres wide and rising to around 1.4 metres in height, is faced with near-vertical drystone masonry of the kind you would expect to see in the adjoining field walls, which makes it both familiar to the eye and oddly difficult to date or assign a purpose to.

The enclosure measures roughly 27 metres north to south and 22 metres east to west, with a single entrance, 2 metres wide, positioned at the south-west. In Irish archaeology, enclosures of this general type, defined by a raised bank rather than a cut ditch or fosse, appear across a wide range of periods and uses, from early medieval farmsteads to later stock enclosures. What is notable here is the complete absence of a fosse, the trench that typically accompanies a defensive earthwork, and the lack of any visible internal features. Whether it once sheltered animals, a dwelling, or something else entirely, the ground gives nothing away. The gentle downhill slope to the west would have made the site reasonably well drained, which might suggest practical rather than ceremonial use, though that remains speculation.