What survives on the western side is a squared-off scarp, the remnant of an earthwork that once measured roughly 36.5 metres on its northwest-to-southeast axis and around 30 metres northeast to southwest. It is the kind of monument that asks more questions than the landscape around it can answer.

Enclosures of this general type are among the more enigmatic features of the Irish countryside. They may have served as settlements, as enclosures for livestock, or as ceremonially significant spaces, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say which. This particular example was recorded on the third edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map in 1930, meaning it was visible and distinct enough at that point to be mapped, though its origins likely stretch back considerably further. By the time it was catalogued in the Archaeological Inventory of County Galway, compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra, and Paul Gosling and published in 1999, the damage from quarrying had already altered it significantly. The bogland visible to the north and southeast suggests a location chosen for its elevation above wetter ground, which is a pattern common to early enclosed sites across the west of Ireland.