The structure is not dramatic. The slabs, most standing upright and placed contiguously though not continuously, reach only around 0.4 metres above the bog surface. But their arrangement, roughly 12.5 metres east to west and 9.5 metres north to south, describes a clear oval enclosure, the kind of boundary that somebody once considered worth building and maintaining in a stretch of rough hill pasture that the bog has since largely swallowed.

What makes the site quietly interesting is the way the builders worked with the landscape rather than against it. At the western side of the enclosure, two naturally outcropping rocks have been incorporated directly into the wall line, saving labour and anchoring the structure to the hillside itself. Some slabs have since leaned or fallen, and the bog has crept up around the rest, but the overall form remains readable. A short distance away, approximately five metres to the south-west, lies a hut site, suggesting this was once a small functional complex, perhaps a seasonal shelter for a herder working the upland pasture with a modest enclosure for livestock nearby. Enclosures of this type, simple stone-defined spaces associated with nearby hut sites, are found across upland Ireland and generally point to the kind of transient or seasonal land use that left little mark beyond the stones themselves.

The setting, a boggy terrace on a valley slope, is the sort of place that tends to preserve what lower, more cultivated ground destroys. The bog that has obscured the lower courses of the slabs is also the reason they survive at all.