The 1897 Ordnance Survey 25-inch plan and the 1920 edition of the 6-inch map recorded it that way, and it would not be formally recognised as an archaeological site until the Record of Monuments and Places listed it as an 'Enclosure' in 1996. In fact, what survives on the ground is a cashel, the term used for a ringfort defined by a stone wall rather than an earthen bank and ditch. Its modest profile and heavily overgrown setting on a limestone-pavement terrace in the Burren landscape made it easy to overlook, even as its stonework remained largely in place.

The cashel is D-shaped, a form dictated in part by the natural topography. Three sides, running southwest to northeast, are defined by a double-faced stone wall measuring 3.25 metres wide and standing between half a metre and two metres high on the exterior. The fourth side, to the southeast, is formed not by built masonry at all but by a natural limestone scarp roughly half a metre high, a feature the original builders evidently judged sufficient. The interior dimensions run to 38.5 metres along the southwest-northeast axis. The outer wall-face is randomly coursed and visible along most of its arc; the inner face survives only intermittently, rising to one or two courses in places. Two gaps in the northern arc, each roughly a metre wide and loosely filled with stones, appear to be recent cattle gaps rather than original entrances. Inside the enclosure, several mounds of cleared field stone suggest the site has been used and managed across multiple periods, and it sits within a larger multiperiod field system that still surrounds it. The ground drops away sharply to the southeast, while a higher limestone terrace further in that direction looks back down over the cashel, giving the site an oddly observed quality, sheltered from below, exposed from above.