It measures roughly 23.5 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, enclosed by a low earthen bank no more than 30 centimetres high. That modest height is partly explained by the fact that the bank has been partly buried under field clearance material, the accumulated stones and debris of generations of farmers tidying their land, the enclosure quietly absorbing the evidence of more recent work on top of its own.

Enclosures of this kind are common enough across the Irish landscape, though their precise function is often unclear. Some were settlement sites, others may have served as animal pounds or garden plots associated with nearby habitation. What gives this one a degree of interest is its relationship to a ringfort lying roughly 250 metres to the west. A ringfort, typically a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks or stone walls, was the standard unit of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, used as a farmstead by a single family or small community. The proximity of this enclosure to that ringfort raises the possibility that the two features were in use at the same time and formed part of the same agricultural or domestic arrangement, though no excavation has confirmed any such connection.