It does not look like much from a distance, and that ambiguity is precisely what makes it interesting. The wall itself stands no higher than a metre and stretches no wider than a metre at its thickest point, with two entrances, one to the north at about a metre across and a wider one to the south at two and a half metres. The interior offers nothing obviously constructed or cultivated; the ground within is simply natural and irregular.

The structure appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840, recorded there as an embanked oval enclosure, and it was hachured again on the 1921 edition, suggesting it was a consistent enough feature of the landscape to be noted across generations of mapping. What the maps cannot settle is what it was actually for. When the site was inspected in January 2017, no evidence emerged that the existing drystone wall had been built over an earlier structure, which rules out one common explanation for such features, namely that a later boundary reused the line of something older. Enclosures of this general type in rural Ireland range widely in date and purpose, from early medieval farmstead boundaries to post-medieval livestock enclosures, and without excavation the function here remains genuinely open. The hazel woodland pressing in from the north and the broad views opening east and west give the spot a quiet self-containment, which may itself be a clue, or may simply be the character of the Clare landscape doing what it does.