It measures roughly 30 metres on its longer axis and 20 metres across, defined by a low earthen bank that has been reinforced on its northern side with stone revetment, masonry set against the outer face of the bank to hold it in place. Two gaps in the perimeter, at the southeast and northwest corners, look like relatively recent breaches rather than original entrances. Inside, the ground climbs steeply toward the northwest end and is covered in cultivation ridges, the corrugated traces of former lazy-bed agriculture, where crops, most likely potatoes, were once grown in raised furrows to improve drainage on wet ground.

What makes the site quietly interesting is precisely its ordinariness. Archaeologists who catalogued it in the 1999 inventory of north Galway suggested it may be nothing more than a small enclosed tillage field, the kind of modest agricultural enclosure that would once have been common across the west of Ireland but that rarely survives with enough integrity to attract notice. The glacial ridge on which it sits offered slightly better-drained ground in an otherwise low-lying and waterlogged landscape, which would have made it a logical choice for anyone trying to coax a crop from difficult terrain. The stone revetment along the northern bank points to some effort in its construction, more than you would expect for a purely casual arrangement, though not enough to settle the question of its age or purpose with any certainty.