Its stone foundations have long since grassed over, blending into the limestone plateau, and the western edge of the structure simply abuts the rock-face rather than completing a full circuit, letting the landscape do some of the work of enclosure.

The enclosure measures roughly 25 metres along its north-south axis and about 10 metres east to west, modest dimensions that suggest a functional rather than ceremonial purpose, though the two are rarely mutually exclusive in the Irish archaeological record. It sits within a broader field system that spreads across the Slievecarran plateau, indicating that this was once a working, organised landscape rather than an isolated feature. The hollow that shelters it appears to have been a useful one: a hut site lies about 70 metres to the north-north-east in a separate hollow, and two further enclosures are recorded just 15 metres to the south-west on the plateau above. The clustering points to sustained, deliberate use of the terrain, with people making the most of the natural contours in an upland environment where shelter and defined space would have mattered considerably. The site was identified by Ros Ó Maoldúin using aerial photography, a reminder that a great deal of the Irish upland archaeological record remains visible only from above, concealed at ground level beneath turf and time.