Classified as a cashel, the term used for a stone-walled ringfort typical of early medieval Ireland, the site turns out on closer inspection to be something harder to pin down: two irregularly shaped enclosures, their walls built partly from older stone facing and partly from relatively modern drystone construction.

The antiquarian Thomas Westropp, writing in 1899, noted three enclosures in this townland of Garracloon, describing two as fairly built but much broken, and a third to the east as somewhat D-shaped in plan. What Westropp actually meant by his first two is no longer entirely clear. The first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows two conjoined enclosures at this spot, yet when the site was examined in 1998, the walls told a more complicated story. The northern enclosure measures roughly 37 metres in diameter, the southern around 26 metres, and both are defined by walling that blends periods and purposes. The drystone sections run to about 0.8 metres thick and between 1.2 and 1.7 metres high, suggesting the fabric of the enclosures has been maintained, modified, and probably reused across a considerable stretch of time. Whether the original structure was genuinely early medieval, or whether the cashel label was applied to something more ambiguous, remains an open question.