By the mid-1990s it was already described as barely visible, the kind of site that rewards patience and a certain willingness to look at ground rather than sky. What marks it out from the general run of vanishing earthworks is the presence of a standing stone set into its eastern sector, an upright megalith that has outlasted whatever boundary or settlement it once accompanied.

Circular enclosures of this type are a recurring feature of the Irish countryside. They range from the substantial ring-forts, or raths, that served as enclosed farmsteads in the early medieval period, to earlier prehistoric enclosures whose purposes are less easily defined. The standing stone at Lerrig sits in an interesting relationship to the enclosure, positioned not outside it but within the eastern arc, which suggests the two features may have been deliberately associated at some point, though whether they are contemporary is difficult to say without excavation. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, recorded both features together, cataloguing this corner of Kerry at a moment when such pairings were still legible on the ground, if only just.