The enclosure measures roughly 4.8 metres east to west, with walls that stand around 0.7 metres high and 0.6 metres thick. Its straight eastern side, some 8 metres long, has been absorbed into the remains of a longer north-south field wall, suggesting that whoever built here was working within, or adapting, an already existing pattern of land division.

What makes this particular enclosure worth pausing over is that it does not stand alone. It belongs to a cluster of at least seven recorded enclosures within the same field system, with three further walled areas extending to the west and north of this one. Taken together, they hint at a phase of organised agricultural or pastoral activity, the precise date of which is not firmly established, but the rubble construction and the integration of enclosure walls into broader field boundaries are features common to early medieval and later land management in Kerry. An enclosure of this kind would typically have served to divide land for livestock, cultivation, or the protection of a dwelling, though the Scarteen example gives little away on its own terms.