What makes it quietly arresting is its scale: the main structure encloses a subcircular area of just four metres by three and a half, its roughly built wall some seven centimetres under a metre wide. Stone debris lies scattered against the outer face of the wall, and a smaller rectangular enclosure, measuring about two metres by just under four internally, abuts the main structure to the north. Two adjoining spaces, neither large enough to be a settlement in any comfortable sense, on exposed upland ground.

Enclosures of this kind on the Iveragh Peninsula are catalogued as part of the wider archaeological landscape of south Kerry, a region where prehistoric and early medieval field systems, hut sites, and stock enclosures are distributed across terrain that looks, to a modern eye, far too exposed and unworkable for sustained human use. The subcircular form of the main enclosure is a common enough shape in Irish field monuments, appearing in everything from ringforts to small pastoral enclosures used to shelter or separate animals. The attached rectangular compartment is harder to read without excavation, though such annexes are sometimes interpreted as byres or small working areas associated with seasonal occupation. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan documented this site in their 1996 archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press, which remains one of the most thorough regional inventories of its kind in Ireland.