A cashel is a ringfort defined by a stone wall rather than an earthen bank, and the one here is subcircular in plan, measuring roughly 38.5 metres across its longest axis. The enclosing wall, though much collapsed, still reads clearly in the landscape: a double-faced construction about 2.2 metres wide, with the outer face surviving all the way round, built from large horizontally laid stones each roughly a metre long. Where the ground falls away to the west and north, the collapsed spread of the wall widens to as much as eleven metres, the stonework having slumped slowly downhill over the centuries.

The enclosure itself is not a single-period monument frozen at one moment in early medieval Ireland. Inside, near the southern end, stand the remains of a tower house, the kind of fortified stone residence built by local lords during the late medieval period, perhaps the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Towards the north of the interior are the traces of what appears to be a house site dating to the sixteenth or seventeenth century, suggesting the space continued to be occupied or adapted long after the original cashel had fallen out of conventional use. The original entrance gap, about 1.6 metres wide at the northeast, is now blocked, but a passageway roughly six metres long extends outward from it to the east-northeast, defined on one side by a drystone wall and on the other by wall foundations. Beyond this passage lie the remains of three further houses, making the whole complex something closer to a small settlement than a single enclosed farmstead. Internal divisions visible in the western half of the interior hint at further subdivision within the cashel, though at least one of these features may be the result of more recent digging rather than original construction. Westropp noted the site as early as 1897, and it sits within a broader multiperiod field system that makes the surrounding landscape as layered as the monument itself.