That impression is deceptive. The enclosure measures roughly 50 to 55 metres north to south and around 40 metres east to west, making it a substantial structure, the kind of scale that suggests it once served a serious purpose, whether as a defended homestead, a livestock enclosure, or a focal point for a small farming community.

The defining wall survives as a spread of moss and grass-covered rubble, no more than half a metre high at its tallest and between three and five metres wide in places, with occasional larger stones still visible at the surface. That low, spread profile is typical of very old field boundaries and enclosures in the west of Ireland, where centuries of weathering, vegetation, and casual stone-robbing have reduced once-substantial walls to soft, ambiguous mounds. The interior slopes gently northward, and at the northern end there is a house site, indicating that the enclosure was still being used, or at least still recognised as a useful boundary, into a later period of occupation. A drystone wall, the kind of field division built without mortar, was constructed across the eastern half of the enclosure at some point before it was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1836, and it still appeared on the 1916 edition of those same maps, suggesting the landscape here remained in active agricultural use well into the modern era. In that sense, the enclosure represents a long conversation between different periods of people working the same patch of ground, each generation inheriting and adapting what the last had left behind.