It is a univallate enclosure, meaning it was defined by a single enclosing bank rather than the multiple concentric earthworks found at more elaborate prehistoric sites. What makes this one quietly odd is how little of it survives in any meaningful height, and yet how clearly its full circuit can still be traced. The bank is best preserved on the northern and north-western sides, where it reaches 0.65 metres above the interior surface and is roughly two metres wide. Elsewhere it has flattened considerably, spreading to around three metres in width while barely registering above the surrounding ground.

The enclosure was recorded in some detail by Michael Connolly as part of his 2008 doctoral thesis on prehistoric settlement in the Lee Valley area around Tralee, which examined how early communities chose and used the landscape around them. The site measures seventeen metres in internal diameter, a modest space by any reckoning. There is no identifiable entrance and no evidence of a surrounding ditch, which in itself is telling. Most enclosures of this type relied on a ditch dug alongside the bank to heighten the boundary, but the sloping terrain here would have made that impractical, water and loose material working against any such effort. By the time the Ordnance Survey returned to map the area for its second edition, the enclosure was already recorded as only partially extant, with the north-western arc the sole section still standing in full. The views from the site are considerable, taking in the Sliabh Mis mountains to the south, including Scotia's Glen, a valley associated in folklore with a legendary Egyptian princess said to have been buried there, and the wide expanse of Tralee Bay to the south-west. Whether this outlook was incidental or deliberate, it places the enclosure within a wider pattern of prehistoric sites positioned with apparent awareness of the land around them.