The enclosure is easy to miss: its boundary is traced not by standing walls but by low scarps rarely more than half a metre high, a curving line of boulders, and, along parts of the western side, an absence of stone that speaks more to disturbance than to deliberate design. An abandoned turf stack sits just inside the south-western end of the settlement area, its stones almost certainly lifted from the enclosure's own perimeter by whoever last worked this ground for fuel. No entrance has been identified.

What makes the site quietly strange is its company. Just to the east, a small stream runs through a hollow, and clustered around it are three fulachtaí fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site typically identified by a mound of fire-cracked stone left behind after repeated use of a water trough heated with hot stones. Having three of them within roughly twenty metres of a single enclosure suggests this hillock sat at the edge of sustained, repeated activity, even if the precise relationship between the settlement and the cooking sites is not yet clear. Adjoining the main enclosure on the gentle north-west-facing slope is a secondary, annexe-like space, slightly larger in one direction at around seventeen metres across, and also notably clear of surface stone. That absence, and the rocky scarp running along its downslope side, points to deliberate clearance rather than accident, as though someone levelled this area for a purpose, though the annexe fades at its north-eastern end into a boulder-strewn expanse without a clean boundary.

The site sits within the archaeology of Clare Island, Co. Mayo, and its description draws on work published in the New Survey of Clare Island, Volume 5, edited by Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning, and John Waddell and published by the Royal Irish Academy in 2007. The island's commonage preserves a density of early remains that rarely survives so legibly elsewhere, and this enclosure, modest and half-dissolved into the hillside, is a good example of how much can still be read in ground that looks, at first glance, like nothing more than rough grazing.