No facing stones remain, no entrance is visible, and the structure announces itself not as a wall but as a spread of rubble, between five and nearly eight metres wide in places, with an interior height of less than half a metre. What survives is essentially the compressed skeleton of something that was once more legible.

The site is classed as a cashel, a term for a ringfort built from stone rather than earth and timber. Where earthen ringforts, known as raths, were formed by digging a circular bank and ditch, a cashel relied on dry-laid stone walling to define and enclose a roughly circular space. This example measures approximately twenty-nine metres across its interior on a north-north-east to south-south-west axis and just under twenty-seven metres on the west-north-west to east-south-east. A section of drystone walling survives along the south-east to west portion of the perimeter, which suggests the original structure was more substantial than the collapsed spread elsewhere implies. Ringforts of this kind were typically farmstead enclosures, built and occupied during the early medieval period in Ireland, roughly between the sixth and twelfth centuries, though their use varied considerably. The site appeared in the Sites and Monuments Record in 1992, listed then as an enclosure, and was carried forward into the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996 under the same cautious designation.