It is ruinous now, two metres wide in places where the stones have spread and settled, and along its southern to north-eastern arc it folds around a natural rock outcrop rather than ignoring it, suggesting whoever built it was working with the landscape rather than imposing on it.

Just to the east of the main enclosure, where the boundary wall has largely disappeared, a small hut site sits in close company with the larger structure. It is an oval space, barely four and a half metres north to south and two metres east to west, edged by a wall of large loose stones about a metre and a half thick. Enclosures of this kind, a defined area bounded by a drystone wall and associated with a small domestic structure, are found across Ireland and generally interpreted as farmsteads or seasonal shelters, though their precise dating is often difficult to establish without excavation. What makes this one quietly interesting is the way the two elements relate: the hut adjoining the enclosure at the point where the outer wall no longer survives, leaving the boundary open on that side, as though the two were conceived together or at least adapted to one another over time. The incorporation of the natural outcrop into the enclosure wall adds a further layer of pragmatism, the kind of detail that gets lost when archaeology is described only in terms of what has survived rather than how it was made.