Roughly 23 metres in diameter, it is the kind of feature that rewards satellite imagery more readily than a casual glance at the ground; its defining wall was picked out through aerial photography and noted by researcher Ros Ó Maoldúin. Stone enclosures of this type are a common enough feature of the Irish landscape, often the remains of a ringfort or similar early medieval settlement boundary, though without excavation it is rarely possible to say with certainty what domestic or agricultural life once unfolded within them.

What makes this particular spot worth pausing over is its relationship to the landscape around it. About 60 metres to the south-east, on a higher shelf of the same slope, lies a holy well. Holy wells in Ireland are ancient focal points of local devotion, often pre-Christian in origin and later absorbed into Christian practice, typically associated with a named saint and visited on a specific pattern day. The proximity of the enclosure to such a site is unlikely to be accidental. Settlements and sacred sites frequently cluster in the Irish landscape, each reinforcing the significance of the other, and the natural ledges of this valley seem to have concentrated both human habitation and ritual attention at its northern end.