It is not a ring fort in the grand sense, nor a roofed structure of any obvious purpose, but a modest circular enclosure just 9.5 metres across internally, its ruined wall still standing to a maximum of 1.25 metres in places, portions of it possibly rebuilt at some point in the intervening centuries.

What gives the site a degree of quiet character is the entrance on its eastern side, 1.5 metres wide and 1.9 metres long, partly framed by upright slabs set deliberately into the threshold. Circular enclosures of this kind are common across early medieval Ireland, often interpreted as small farmsteads or ancillary enclosures attached to larger settlements, and this one sits in good company: it lies roughly 40 metres south of Cathair na Máirttíneach, a stone fort, and around 75 metres south-west of another nearby monument. A cathair, for those unfamiliar with the term, is a stone-walled enclosure of the type found throughout the west of Ireland, typically associated with early Christian or early medieval habitation. The clustering of monuments here suggests a settled, perhaps layered, use of this stretch of Gleann Fán over a long period. The enclosure was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, a survey that catalogued the remarkable density of early remains across the Dingle Peninsula.