It measures roughly seven metres across and barely thirty centimetres high, with walls not much more than two-thirds of a metre thick. The construction is described as rough, which is a telling detail: whoever built this was not working to the conventions of the more elaborate stone enclosures found elsewhere on the Iveragh Peninsula.

Enclosures of this kind are found scattered across upland and boggy ground throughout Ireland, and their age and purpose are not always straightforward to establish. Some are prehistoric field boundaries or animal pounds, others have been associated with early medieval settlement or transhumance, the seasonal movement of livestock to summer grazing. The peat that has accumulated around this one over centuries both obscures and preserves it. Its location close to the stream and on a raised terrace suggests it may have been a practical structure rather than a ceremonial one, though the record is silent on the question. It was documented as part of a systematic archaeological survey of south Kerry published in 1996, a project that brought together a great deal of fieldwork on the Iveragh Peninsula and established a baseline record for sites like this one that might otherwise pass unnoticed.