What makes it quietly odd is what the ground does inside: it drops away sharply towards the east and south-east, so that standing at one side of the enclosure and looking across to the other, you are looking uphill. The wall itself, rising to around 1.2 metres, holds this uneven terrain within a near-perfect ring.

Drystone construction, which uses carefully fitted stones without mortar, is common enough in the west of Ireland, but the relationship between this wall and the landscape beneath it tells a more layered story. Towards the western side, the wall is not resting on bare ground but on the remnants of an older mound wall, one that likely formed part of an ancient field system predating the enclosure itself. There is also a natural mound sitting just west of centre inside the enclosure; its top sits flush with the base of the western wall, suggesting the builders were working around, or perhaps deliberately incorporating, a feature that was already there. Whether this was a ringfort, a livestock enclosure, or something else entirely is not established, and the site sits formally in the record under the neutral label of 'enclosure', which is itself a kind of admission that the function remains unclear.