It is a cashel, the Irish term for a ringfort defined by a stone enclosure wall rather than an earthen bank and ditch, and it belongs to a class of monument that was once scattered across this landscape in considerable numbers, most likely serving as the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval families of some local standing.

The structure measures roughly 33 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west, with an interior that slopes downward toward the south. The enclosing wall, originally around two metres wide and up to two metres high in places, has deteriorated significantly; to the north-east and west it has spread outward into lower, broader runs of rubble. A short stretch of inner facing stone survives on the east side, and outer facing can be traced intermittently from the south-south-east around to the west, giving a sense of what the original dressed surface once looked like. A large natural depression sits in the north-east quadrant of the interior, and a more recent drystone field wall has been built directly on top of the cashel wall along its northern arc, which is likely one reason that section is so poorly preserved. Where the entrance once stood is no longer apparent. The cashel appears within a wider field system, suggesting it was embedded in a working agricultural landscape rather than isolated, and it commands open views from east to south-west across falling ground. It did not appear on earlier Ordnance Survey mapping, surfacing only on the 1916 six-inch edition as a simple enclosure marking.