Yet the dimensions are deliberate, roughly 32 metres north to south and 26 metres east to west, and the wall, though crudely built, has held its general shape. At the southwest corner there is a possible entrance, just 0.6 metres wide, barely enough to admit a person sideways.

An enclosure of this kind is a broad category in the Irish archaeological record, a field or yard boundary defined by a drystone wall, the stones laid without mortar, relying on their own weight and careful placement to hold together. What gives this one particular interest is what survives inside. Beneath the ferns that now carpet the interior, a series of north-to-south cultivation ridges run across the ground. These lazy beds, as they are commonly known, are the physical trace of hand-tillage, most often associated with small-scale potato cultivation in the post-medieval period, though the technique is considerably older. The ridges here were worked within a deliberately bounded space, suggesting this enclosure once served as a small kitchen garden or managed plot, sheltered on its open south side by the natural fall of the slope. Loose stones scattered across the interior may be the collapsed remnants of internal divisions or simply material cleared from the ridges themselves.