No inscription, no documentary record, no dateable artefact has pinned this place to a century or a people. The enclosure is bounded by a low bank of stone and earth, partly swallowed now by thorn trees along its perimeter, and within it the ground holds the faint impressions of at least two, possibly three, house or hut sites pressed against the inner face of that bank.

When surveyors examined the site in 1977, they found the larger of the two confirmed house sites occupying the north-west corner of the enclosure, its northern and western walls formed by the enclosure bank itself, its eastern and southern sides defined by a slight stone-and-earth bank with traces of stone facings at the south-east corner and along the eastern wall. Inside, the only feature still legible was a small recess in the north-east corner. A smaller rectangular hut site sits against the bank on the eastern side of the interior, its southern wall carrying what may be an entrance just at the south-east corner. To the north of this hut, a short stretch of bank projects inward from the perimeter, and the slight drop in ground level between the two banks hints at the floor area of a third structure, though no western wall survives to confirm it. A large boulder lies just south of the north-west house site, purpose unrecorded. The enclosure type, a domestic or farmstead complex defined by an earthen or stone boundary bank, is a form found across Ireland in various periods from the early medieval centuries onward, but without excavation the date here remains stubbornly indeterminate.

The site occupies the eastern and higher end of the ridge, which gives open views to the north-west, west, and south-west, while the surrounding ridges close off the outlook to the north, east, and south. It is the kind of placement that speaks to practical reasoning, light, drainage, a field of view, even if we cannot say who did the reasoning or when.