Whoever shaped this place took an uneven natural boss of rock and roughly levelled its top to create a usable enclosed area, oval in plan and measuring approximately thirteen metres north to south by just over sixteen metres east to west. What results is a space that feels both found and made, geology and intention folded together.

Three sides of the enclosure owe their definition to the landscape itself. Steep natural scarps, sheer drops in the rock face, form the northern, eastern, and southern edges of the interior, doing the work of a wall without any masonry being needed. Only on the western side did someone need to build, and there a man-made scarp rising to about 1.6 metres completes the enclosure. This combination of natural and constructed boundary is characteristic of a certain pragmatic approach to prehistoric and early medieval site-making in Ireland, where the effort of construction was reduced by making the most of whatever the terrain already provided. The site sits in pasture now, the rock outcrop still visible beneath grazing land, which is often how these places survive, unremarked and unenclosed by anything more modern than a field boundary.