A low bank of earth and stone, standing to about 1.4 metres, runs around its south-western, western, and northern edges, while a thicket of vegetation, growing to a similar height, continues the enclosure around the remaining arc. The interior is dense with furze. A field boundary to the south completes the cordon. The whole thing is specifically set apart from the rest of the field, which raises an obvious question: what exactly is being preserved here, and does anyone still know?

The site came to attention when it was reported as a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered stone, often found near a water source. Aerial photography had suggested something worth recording at this location. On the ground, however, surveyors found no trace of a fulacht fia at the co-ordinates provided. The enclosed feature lying approximately 55 metres to the north-east is now considered the likelier candidate for what the aerial imagery had picked up. Inside that enclosure, limited investigation revealed several small stone piles, but these did not match the characteristic burnt and cracked material associated with fulacht fia activity. The surveyors suggested the stones could represent field clearance, some form of cairn, or possibly a cillín, the informal burial grounds used historically for unbaptised children and others excluded from consecrated ground, which were often deliberately left undisturbed within the landscape. Nothing was confirmed either way.