The cashel itself, a type of dry-stone ringfort with mortarless walls, is unusual enough at this elevation; but that interior mound, roughly eight metres across and up to 75 centimetres high, adds a layer of ambiguity that no surviving record has yet resolved. It may be the remains of a structure, or something older still. The site looks out across a wide arc from west-south-west to north-west, with the Burren's rising ground cutting off any view to the east and south-east, giving the place a curiously partial, almost secretive relationship with the landscape around it.

The cashel encloses a subcircular area roughly 25 metres north to south and 23.7 metres east to west, its boundary formed by a stony bank with intermittently visible facing stones on both inner and outer sides. The outer stone facing survives best along the western stretch, where the wall reaches 1.1 metres on the exterior face, and is highest of all at the south-south-east, touching 1.5 metres. Between west and north-west, however, the facing has collapsed, and along the northern arc the structure has been reduced to little more than a rubble bank. Complicating the picture further, a later field wall has been built directly onto the outer face of the cashel wall from north to south-east, and additional field walls press against the perimeter at the north-north-east and south-east. The monument sits within a wider field system, meaning that generations of agricultural activity have accumulated around and against it, obscuring its original profile. When the Ordnance Survey first mapped the area, the site was recorded in one position; by the time of the Cassini edition in 1915, and on current mapping, it appears approximately 50 metres to the north-east, a discrepancy that suggests the early surveyors were working from imprecise observation or difficult terrain, and that even the monument's location has a small history of uncertainty attached to it.