No wall marks its edge, no ditch separates inside from out. Instead, the boundary of this roughly oval settlement area, measuring about 18.6 metres east to west and at least 17.5 metres north to south, is traced almost entirely by negative evidence: a scarcity of surface stone here, a scarp of earthfast boulders there, and along the eastern arc, nothing more assertive than a gradual increase in visible stone at ground level. Only the southern limit is emphatic, where the slope breaks sharply upward and boulders scatter across the break. It is the kind of place that asks you to look carefully before you see anything at all.

What the summit does hold, arranged along the hillock's crown, is a north-to-south line of six small set boulders stretching 7.2 metres, with two further stones at the southern end suggesting a turn. Archaeologists have considered whether these might be the remnants of a house foundation, though the prevailing view is that they are more likely the last traces of a turf stack, the kind of dried peat store that was once a practical fixture of everyday rural life. The wider landscape around the hillock adds texture to the picture. Three fulachtaí fia are visible from the enclosure; a fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking site, typically identified by a mound of fire-cracked stone beside a trough or water source. The nearest lies roughly 60 metres to the west-south-west, on the opposite bank of the stream called Pollbrandy on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps. A small circular hut sits about 15 metres to the west, between the enclosure and that same stream. Two hut hollows, one set into the southern base of the hill and one into the eastern slope just outside the enclosure limits, may also be associated with the same settlement. The hillock itself overlooks the lower reaches of Pollbrandy but is, in turn, overlooked by higher ground immediately to its south-south-west, a detail that complicates any reading of it as a position chosen for commanding views.