Roughly twenty metres in diameter and enclosed by a drystone wall standing about 1.2 metres high, it sits in rough grazing ground in a way that might, at a glance, suggest the remains of a ringfort or some other early medieval settlement feature. Ringforts, which were typically circular or near-circular enclosures defined by earthen banks or stone walls and used as farmsteads from roughly the fifth to the twelfth century, are common across Clare and often survive in exactly this kind of upland terrain. But the wall here tells a different story.

The enclosure's drystone wall does not appear to rest on any earlier structure beneath it, and the construction itself is assessed as modern in origin. In other words, what looks like a candidate for prehistoric or early medieval significance is, on closer inspection, a relatively recent piece of field architecture that has nonetheless ended up in the Sites and Monuments Record. This is not as unusual as it might seem. The process of surveying and listing potential archaeological features across Ireland has always involved a degree of caution, and structures that superficially resemble known monument types are sometimes recorded precisely so that their status can be clarified over time. The D-shape is itself a minor curiosity, since true ringforts tend toward the circular; the flat side of a D-shaped enclosure sometimes follows a natural boundary like a slope or a field edge, and that practical logic may well apply here.