A stone step, revetted and running roughly east-north-east to west-south-west, divides the interior in two: the northern half sits some 0.4 metres higher than the southern, giving the enclosed ground an unexpected split-level quality. This is not a feature you would necessarily anticipate inside a roughly circular stone enclosure, and it suggests a more deliberate organisation of interior space than the ruined walls alone might imply.

A cashel is a ringfort built in stone rather than earth and timber, and this one is substantial by any measure. The enclosing wall stands 1.5 metres high and 1.6 metres wide, encircling an area of roughly 44 metres north to south and 46 metres east to west. The structure sits on elevated ground in pasture, with a farmyard to its west, which is itself a fairly typical relationship between early medieval settlement sites and later agricultural land use. The wall has been rebuilt in two stretches along the south-east and has been levelled on the south side, while a gap of three metres in the north-east and an iron gate marking an opening in the south-west suggest different phases of use and access over time. Tucked into the north-west of the interior is a blocked souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage of the kind commonly associated with Irish ringforts, typically interpreted as storage space or a place of refuge, though its entrance has long since been sealed.

The site lies within the broader district surveyed in a 1994 archaeological study of Ballinrobe and the area surrounding Lough Mask and Lough Carra, a part of south County Mayo with a notably dense concentration of early medieval and prehistoric remains. The blocked souterrain and the surviving wall height indicate that, despite some reconstruction and the wear common to any site that has remained in a working agricultural landscape, a great deal of the original fabric is still present and legible on the ground.