Spread across gently undulating pastureland, the structure has collapsed so thoroughly into itself that it reads now as little more than a low grassy swell in the field, its original purpose legible only to those who already know what they are looking at.

The site is a cashel, a type of ringfort defined by a circular enclosure wall built from drystone, that is, stone laid without mortar, relying on careful arrangement and weight to hold its form. This one measured around 33 metres in diameter, and its wall was originally some 2.4 metres wide, suggesting a structure of some substance. Today, however, only the basal courses survive, the wall having long since collapsed and been absorbed into the surrounding ground, leaving an external height of just 0.7 metres at its most visible. Cashels of this kind are generally associated with the early medieval period in Ireland, serving as enclosed farmsteads for families of some local standing. The site appears in records compiled by Athy in 1914 and again by McCaffrey in 1952, by which point the deterioration was already well established.