The interior measures just over eleven metres across, and the entrance faces north-north-east, as if oriented with some deliberate purpose now impossible to confirm. What makes this place quietly compelling is not the enclosure itself in isolation, but the cluster of features gathered around it: a second enclosure pressing against its south-eastern arc, a rectangular hut site tucked against the north-east, a burnt spread some forty metres to the north-east, and a standing stone around seventy metres to the east. Taken together, they suggest a small settlement or activity area, layers of use accumulated in a corner of Kerry that most people pass without a second glance.

The enclosure was already being recorded when the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch maps in 1895, where it appears as a circular feature of roughly ten metres in diameter. Enclosures of this kind, defined by an earthen bank or drystone wall, are among the most common monument types in the Irish landscape; they served variously as farmsteads, stock enclosures, or the foundations of more complex settlements, and dating them precisely without excavation is rarely straightforward. The burnt spread nearby is particularly interesting in this context. Such spreads, sometimes called fulachta fia or burnt mounds, are typically associated with prehistoric cooking or industrial activity, formed from the accumulation of fire-cracked stone and charcoal-rich soil around a water trough or hearth. Whether the spread here is connected in time or function to the enclosures is unknown, but the proximity is suggestive. Since the survey was carried out, the surrounding area has been planted with trees, which will have changed the character of the landscape around the site considerably.