It measures roughly three metres by two, and stands no higher than half a metre, with only two courses of stone still in place. Easy to miss, easier to dismiss, it is classified as a possible penitential station, which places it within a tradition of devotional practice that once operated quietly alongside the better-known rituals of Irish pilgrimage.

Penitential stations are the physical stops along a pattern route, the prescribed circuit of prayer performed at a holy well or other sacred site. At each station, pilgrims would kneel, recite set prayers, and sometimes perform physical acts of penance such as walking barefoot or prostrating themselves on the ground. The enclosures that marked these stations were rarely elaborate; a low drystone wall, a standing stone, or a simple mound was often sufficient to define the sacred space. Here, the structure sits just five metres to the south-west of the associated holy well, close enough that the relationship between the two would have been clear to anyone performing the pattern. Whether this enclosure was ever a formal station or served some adjacent ritual function is not certain, which accounts for the cautious classification it carries.