The enclosure itself is modest in scale, roughly fifteen to sixteen metres across, and has been described variously as squarish in outline and as a circular platform enclosure, the kind of low raised earthwork that can mark anything from a habitation site to a stock enclosure depending on context. Platform enclosures, where a roughly level area is defined and sometimes slightly elevated within a surrounding bank or wall, are known from across Ireland and tend to be difficult to date without excavation. What makes this one quietly interesting is less its own character than its setting: it sits inside a multiperiod field system on bare karst limestone, the Burren's characteristic exposed bedrock landscape, which has preserved traces of land use across millennia in unusual density.

The site was noted by Tim Robinson on his 1977 map of the Burren, one of the most detailed and attentive cartographic records ever made of this landscape, and aerial imagery from 2005 confirmed the enclosure as a visible feature on the ground. By the time more recent imagery was captured between 2013 and 2018, the site had become heavily overgrown, making it increasingly hard to read from the air or, presumably, on foot. About seventy-five metres to the west lies a court tomb, a Neolithic megalithic monument type in which a roofless forecourt opens into one or more burial chambers, typically dating to roughly four to six thousand years ago. The proximity of the enclosure to that older structure, and both of them sitting within the same layered field system, gives the area the quality common to much of the Burren: land that was never entirely abandoned and never entirely explained.