The site, tucked within a small curved stone wall, is compact and unassuming, the kind of place that could be walked past without a second glance. Yet the arrangement is precise and purposeful: a mound roughly 5.5 metres across and just under a metre high, the upright stone rising to 1.17 metres above it, and a narrow path circling the mound between it and the enclosing wall, wide enough for one person to walk in single file.

The enclosure sits approximately 96 metres south of Temple Chronáin, a early church site, and shares its walled space with Tobar Chronáin, a holy well, which lies at the base of the rock face to the north. The well and the penitential station form a small sacred complex associated with Saint Chronán. Penitential stations, in the Irish devotional tradition, were places where the faithful performed a set sequence of prayers and physical acts, often including circuits walked barefoot around a mound or stone, as an act of penance or to seek a cure. The repetitive, embodied nature of these rituals left its mark in the worn paths around such sites. By the time the Ordnance Survey Letters were compiled in the nineteenth century, it was recorded that stations had indeed been performed at Tobar Chronáin, though no specific pattern day, the annual feast day on which such devotions would traditionally have been observed, was still remembered by locals. The forgetting of a pattern day often signals a long decline in active use, though the physical fabric of the site survived.

Access to the enclosure is through a stile at the northwest corner of the wall, which curves around from northeast to northwest, leaving the steep rock face to do the work of the northern boundary. The holy well sits at the foot of that same rock face, so both features are visible and reachable once inside.