The enclosure is roughly 33 metres across, its subcircular shape pressed into a karst landscape, the kind of terrain where limestone pavements fracture into grikes and clints, and the ground can feel both ancient and provisional at once. It was not excavated or formally investigated on the ground; its existence was confirmed through aerial and satellite imagery, the grassed-over wall catching the light at the right angle to betray what lies beneath.

Karst landscapes in the west of Ireland have a long history of human settlement, and enclosures of this kind, defined by a stone wall and often subcircular in plan, are a recurring feature of the Irish countryside from the early medieval period onwards. They could have served as farmsteads, stock enclosures, or the boundary walls of small ringfort-type settlements, though without excavation it is impossible to say which function this particular example served. What adds a small degree of interest is that a subrectangular enclosure lies approximately 95 metres to the north-east, suggesting this was not an isolated structure but part of a wider pattern of activity on the plateau.