The site sits in rough hill pasture about twenty-five metres north of the Glanrastel River, and what makes it quietly odd is the precision involved. This was not a casual boundary marker or a collapsed field wall; it is a carefully constructed oval enclosure, roughly nine metres east to west and just over seven and a half metres north to south, with a level interior that would not occur naturally on a sloping hillside.

The engineering, modest in scale but deliberate in execution, shows a consistent approach to the problem of building on an incline. On the uphill side, the enclosure is cut into the slope to a depth of around sixty centimetres, while on the downhill side the material was built up externally to a height of roughly the same. The resulting boundary is a low scarp, still standing to about half a metre, with a slight internal lip running east to west. On the lower, downslope face, the scarp retains its stone facing, which suggests that the builders were concerned about the structure holding together under the pressure of the hillside above it. Enclosures of this kind, found across Ireland in upland and lowland settings alike, are a broad category that can encompass anything from early medieval farmsteads to animal pounds to features of uncertain ritual or agricultural use, and without excavation the function of this particular example remains open.