Roughly fifteen and a half metres from north to south and thirteen and a half metres from east to west, it is defined by a sod-covered stone bank so reduced by time that it barely registers as architecture at all, rising no more than ten centimetres on the interior and forty on the exterior. The wall is narrow, less than a metre wide in places, and what survives reads more as a long, shallow ridge of earth and stone than anything obviously structural.

Breaks and eroded sections occur at the north-west, north-north-east, and south-east, but none of them resolves clearly into an entrance, which is part of what makes the feature so difficult to read. Circular or sub-circular enclosures in the Irish landscape can belong to several different traditions, from early medieval ring-forts, which were typically defended farmsteads surrounded by an earthen bank and ditch, to much more modest agricultural or domestic structures of uncertain date. Here, however, the scale and the character of the remains are modest enough that the most cautious interpretation is simply that it may be the remnants of a house. No date has been established, and the form alone does not narrow things down. The hilltop position, with good views in all directions, might suggest a concern with visibility or surveillance, though it could equally reflect nothing more than the practical logic of building on well-drained ground above the surrounding pasture.