A cashel is a ringfort built from stone rather than earth and timber, and this particular example measures roughly 53 metres north to south, though you would be forgiven for missing much of it. The defining wall has long since collapsed and grassed over, tracing a curve from the north-west, through the east, and down to the south-west, before disappearing entirely. To the west, no surface trace survives at all.

What survives is embedded within a working field system, and at least part of the reason for the monument's poor condition is straightforward: a later field wall cuts directly across it at both the north-west and south-west. This kind of incremental encroachment is common in areas of continuous agricultural use, where historic boundaries are absorbed into, or simply overwritten by, more recent ones. A number of house sites are associated with the cashel, suggesting this was once a small settlement cluster rather than a solitary enclosure. Ringforts of this type were typically farmsteads of the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, and the presence of associated structures points to a community that once organised its domestic and agricultural life within and around this now-fragmentary ring of stone.