Roughly twelve metres across and subcircular in shape, it is defined by a grassed-over stone wall on one side and a natural rock outcrop along the north-west, the kind of structure where human effort and bare geology have become almost indistinguishable from one another.

The enclosure does not sit in isolation. It forms part of a much larger field system that extends across the whole of the Slievecarran plateau, suggesting that this corner of the Burren was once organised, worked, and lived in at a scale that the present emptiness does little to suggest. Just seven metres to the north-east, within the same hollow, lies a hut site, the remains of a small roofed structure, which implies that the enclosure and the dwelling were part of the same small complex. Whether this was a farmstead, a seasonal shelter, or something else is not recorded, but the pairing of enclosure and hut site is a familiar pattern in the Irish archaeological landscape, one that speaks to a community organising its land, its animals, and its daily life on the exposed plateau above the valley.