The enclosure itself is roughly five metres in diameter, a small and unassuming circle of stone that might easily be dismissed as a field boundary or a collapsed wall. What makes it quietly interesting is that it does not stand alone; it is one of at least seven such enclosures recorded within the same field system, suggesting that the people who shaped this ground were doing something more deliberate and complex than simple farming.

Stone enclosures of this kind, essentially defined areas bounded by drystone walling, appear throughout Kerry and across Ireland more broadly, and their functions varied considerably. Some served as animal pens or small farmyards; others had ritual or ceremonial purposes. When several appear together within a coherent field system, as at Scarteen, the grouping hints at an organised community making sustained use of the land over time, though precisely when and by whom remains difficult to say without excavation. The field system surrounding these enclosures is itself a separate recorded monument, and the two together, the enclosures nested within the fields, form a layered picture of past land management in this corner of the Iveragh Peninsula.