It measures only five metres across, which makes it easy to miss and easier still to dismiss, yet the care with which it was originally built is still legible in the remains. Two large boulders were deliberately incorporated into the south-east arc of the wall, suggesting that whoever raised it was working with the landscape rather than against it, using what was already there as structural anchors.

The wall itself, now collapsed to a height of about a metre and a thickness of roughly seventy centimetres, is consistent with a small enclosure of the kind found widely across upland Ireland, though the specific purpose of any individual example is rarely easy to determine. Loose stones scattered both inside the enclosure and down the slope below it indicate some degree of disturbance over time, whether from the settling of the ground, the removal of stone for other uses, or simply centuries of weather on an exposed hillside. The peaty soil into which the base stones are embedded points to the gradual transformation of what may once have been more workable ground.