That combination, a defensive enclosure positioned somewhere it cannot easily see out, gives the site a quietly puzzling quality. It sits within a broader field system and appears on the 1839 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, where it was recorded using hachuring, a cartographic convention that indicates raised or earthwork features. Whatever its original purpose, by the end of the nineteenth century it had found a new one.

When the antiquarian T. J. Westropp visited and recorded the site in 1899, he noted a small ring-wall on a projecting spur with walls much gapped, containing nothing more than a modern sheep-fold. That detail is telling. The cashel, a type of stone-walled ringfort built in the early medieval period, had by then been reduced to useful enclosure for livestock, its internal facing stripped away and its original entrance location lost entirely. What survives today is a subcircular structure measuring roughly 22 metres north to south and 21 metres east to west, defined by a heavily overgrown stone wall that ranges in height from just under a metre to nearly two metres, and runs to about two metres in width. Only the outer face of the wall is now legible; the inner face has not survived. At the base, very large blocks were used in the construction, a detail that hints at a more deliberate and substantial build than the current appearance suggests. The interior is flat ground, now thick with blackthorn.

The blackthorn that fills the interior today makes any close inspection difficult, and the entrance, which in a well-preserved cashel would typically be a narrow gap through the wall, cannot be identified with confidence. The wall's outer face, where it does emerge from the vegetation, shows roughly coursed masonry that repays a careful look for the oversized foundation stones Westropp and later surveyors recorded.