It is a raised enclosure, sub-circular in shape, measuring roughly twelve metres north to south and lifting only about forty centimetres above the land around it. That modest elevation is enough to mark it out as something deliberate, something made, though precisely what it was made for remains an open question. More intriguing still is what lies inside it: a small circular mound, barely two and a half metres across, sitting within the enclosed space like a feature within a feature.

This kind of enclosure is often found in association with a rath, the term used for a ringfort, which was the most common form of early medieval settlement in Ireland, typically consisting of a circular area defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. Here, the raised enclosure sits to the north-east of exactly such a structure, a univallate rath, meaning one defined by a single bank and ditch. The relationship between the two is not fully understood. A later fieldbank, running north-east to south-west, has cut across the enclosure, showing that at some point in the intervening centuries the land was divided up in ways that paid no particular attention to what was already there. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, recorded both features and noted their proximity, leaving the question of their original connection open.