Most of the wall has sunk almost level with the ground, its presence given away by an irregular scatter of stones, a few standing upright, the rest hardly breaking the surface. The enclosure measures roughly 11.5 metres north to south and 14 metres east to west, its perimeter broken by several gaps, the widest of about a metre on the south-west side. It sits at the north-east edge of a broad, low sand hill on the machair, the thin, grassy plain formed from wind-blown shell sand that fringes the Atlantic coast of western Ireland.

What makes the site quietly revealing is its context. The 1921 Ordnance Survey six-inch map records this enclosure as part of a named settlement cluster called Turrows, a tight grouping of enclosures and houses that once occupied this corner of the island. Within a short distance lie the remains of a row of three conjoined houses to the south, a second enclosure to the south-west, and a further house to the west. Inishkea North was permanently evacuated in 1934, following a tragedy in 1927 when ten young men from the island were drowned in a sudden storm while fishing. The Turrows cluster, then, is not ancient in the way of ringforts or early medieval settlements; it belongs to a community that was living and working here within living memory, and whose departure was recent and abrupt.

The enclosure itself, with its low sod-covered wall remnants, would be easy to walk past without pausing. Set against the wider scatter of abandoned structures across the island, though, it reads as one piece of an ordinary domestic arrangement, a walled plot beside houses, now slowly being absorbed back into the machair.