Its walls, once standing to around 2.2 metres and built to a width of 2.5 metres, have partly collapsed and are now heavily overgrown, their mass merging with a low earthen bank beneath. A gap opens in the north-east, and on the south-west and north-west sides the old walling has been pressed into service as ordinary field fencing, so that the boundary between ancient monument and modern farmland has effectively dissolved.

The site is a caher, the Irish word for a stone-walled enclosure of early medieval date, broadly equivalent to a cashel, and it sits about 100 metres east of a related cashel already recorded nearby. That proximity is worth noting: such enclosures are sometimes found in loose clusters, possibly reflecting extended family settlement or the gradual expansion of a farming community across a landscape that in this part of Mayo is defined by the fractured, thin-soiled terrain of karst. A field fence now bisects the interior entirely, cutting across both the enclosure and the cashel wall to its north-north-west and south, which gives some sense of how thoroughly the structure has been re-absorbed into the agricultural routine of the area. The north-east corner of the interior is the most overgrown and contains both rock outcrop and what appears to be clearance material, the kind of accumulated stone that generations of farmers moved to the edges to make ground workable.