The walls are low and roughly built, their entrances poorly defined, and one of the enclosures absorbs a large natural rock outcrop directly into its northern side, as though whoever constructed it decided to let the landscape do some of the work. That pragmatic detail, an ancient builder saving labour by folding existing geology into the fabric of a wall, gives the site a particular character.

Enclosures of this type are among the more ambiguous features in the Irish archaeological record. They may have served as animal pens, small farmsteads, or field boundaries, and without excavation it is often impossible to say more with confidence. What can be said is that this group occupies a terrace position just south-east of Knocknabreeda and immediately west of the Curraghalia stream, a setting that would have made practical sense for a farming community: slightly raised ground offering some drainage, with fresh water close at hand. One of the enclosures measures roughly 6.4 metres by 5 metres, with walls surviving to just 30 centimetres in height and around 80 centimetres in thickness, which gives a sense of how much has been lost to time and weather, and how much was perhaps never especially substantial to begin with.