Its sub-circular outline, roughly 65 metres across at its widest, is formed from a combination of stone-faced earthen banks and a stone wall, with a shallow external fosse, a defensive ditch, running along part of its perimeter. The mixture of burial ground, ruined church, holy well, and possible prehistoric earthwork all occupying the same space gives the site an accumulated, layered quality that no single label quite covers.

The local scholar O'Donoghue, writing in 1914, considered it a great rath, the kind of substantial circular enclosure associated with early Irish settlement and status. The cartographic record complicates this. The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows an irregular enclosure; by 1902 it appears more neatly sub-circular. O'Donoghue himself explained why: around 1800, a Mrs Clarke raised the circumvallation, meaning she built up the enclosing bank into the form visible today. During that work, a cave was uncovered, which may point to the presence of a souterrain, an underground passage or chamber associated with early medieval sites in Ireland, used variously for storage, refuge, or access to water. O'Donoghue also recorded the remains of an ancient church, long since in ruins, with a traceable north wall of about twenty-five paces and a west side of twelve paces. Near a doorway marked by two large upright stones, a lintel six feet long lay fallen inside what he called the sacred edifice, close to a small cairn said to contain the body of a priest. He noted sixteen graves, a separate unbaptised burial ground, and a headstone dated 1852. A bullaun stone, a large rock with one or more cup-shaped hollows ground into it, associated across Ireland with early ecclesiastical sites, sits on the south-east side, and a holy well lies to the north.

The interior is now heavily overgrown, and most of what O'Donoghue catalogued is no longer visible. Access is through a gate on the south-east side, and the site is no longer in religious use. The bullaun stone and holy well survive as the most readily identifiable features for anyone prepared to push through the undergrowth.