What survives is a roughly circular field wall tracing an oval shape, approximately fifty metres across its north-east to south-west axis and forty-five metres on the north-west to south-east. The wall itself is probably not the original structure at all, but a later boundary that was built, at some point, directly on top of whatever came before. The enclosure beneath has left no visible trace.

This kind of site is easy to overlook, and in some respects that is precisely what makes it worth pausing over. Enclosures of this general form, roughly circular and of comparable dimensions, are often associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, though they could also serve agricultural or ceremonial purposes. The karst terrain here, a landscape shaped by dissolved limestone with thin soils and fractured rock close to the surface, has a way of swallowing older features. When a later field boundary was laid down over the original enclosing element, whether an earthen bank, a stone wall, or a ditch, whatever profile or texture the earlier structure possessed was effectively erased. The archaeology survives as a shape, and as an inference, rather than as masonry or earthwork.