The arrangement is orderly enough to suggest intention, yet what that intention was remains genuinely unclear. It is the kind of site that raises more questions than it answers.

The inner enclosure is subrectangular, measuring roughly 29 metres on its longer axis and just over 26 metres on the shorter, and is defined by a bank that has been considerably reduced over time, worn down to a low, barely perceptible rise in the ground. Enclosures of this general type are common across Ireland, often interpreted as the remains of early medieval farmsteads or stock enclosures, where a circular or roughly rectangular earthen bank once marked the boundary of a household or its land. Here, though, the presence of a second, larger enclosure surrounding it, and the spoke-like banks connecting the two, complicates any simple reading. Whether the inner structure preceded the outer, was built alongside it, or was inserted into an already existing enclosure at a later date is not known. That ambiguity is recorded honestly rather than papered over.