For years it appeared in the Sites and Monuments Record as a cashel, the term used for a stone-walled early medieval ringfort, typically associated with farmsteads and enclosed settlement. When someone finally visited in 1998, the classification shifted. What stands here is an enclosure, roughly 17 metres in internal diameter, defined by a drystone wall whose construction carries some interest in itself: the stones at the base are laid transversely rather than flat, and several large upright stones punctuate the line of the wall.

The reclassification from cashel to enclosure is a small but telling detail. It reflects how frequently Irish monuments were catalogued at a distance, from maps and earlier records rather than first-hand inspection, with the result that the record accumulated assumptions as much as facts. The SMR listing dates to 1992, the formal Record of Monuments and Places entry to 1996, and it was only the 1998 visit that produced an accurate description of what the structure actually is. Whether the distinctive stonework, with its transversely set base courses and uprights, points to a particular function or period remains unclear from what survives, though the elevated position above a ravine gives the site a certain geographical logic as a place of enclosure, boundary-making, or lookout.