A ringfort, or rath, is typically an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, defined by one or more earthen banks; a cashel is its drier-stone equivalent, walled in unmortared rock. The structure here sits awkwardly between the two definitions. Its enclosing scarp appears to be earthen, but the stony bank that runs along the top of it may once have been a proper stone wall, since collapsed and spread into its current form. Whether it was built as a rath and later had stone added, or was always a modest cashel whose wall has slumped over centuries into something resembling an earthen bank, is not something the ground is willing to say.

The site occupies a low east-west ridge on pasture land, with open views to the south across a small stream valley. The enclosure is roughly circular, measuring 24 metres north to south and 26 metres east to west, with a low sod-covered stony bank that reaches an external height of around 1.3 metres in places, though in other sections it dwindles to little more than a stony lip sitting on an earthen scarp. Along the northeast arc, stones protrude through the sod in a way that suggests a kerb or stone facing may once have defined that edge more clearly. On the western side, there is a slight depression outside the bank, possibly the remnant of a fosse, the shallow ditch that would once have reinforced the enclosure's boundary. No clearly defined entrance survives, though the bank is at its lowest point on the south side, where a narrow eroded break may mark where people once passed in and out.

Inside, the ground dips noticeably in the northeast quadrant, and a later field wall cuts across the interior on a north-south axis, dividing what was once a unified space. A stand of conifers has taken root in the western third of the interior, and a few hawthorn trees grow around the perimeter, as they so often do at sites like this, where old boundaries and disturbed ground offer them a foothold that the surrounding improved pasture does not.