The walls of this ancient stone enclosure, a cashel, meaning a ringfort built from dry-stone rather than earthen banks, have been reduced over the centuries to a low stony bank, largely flattened, with only occasional facing-stones still visible above ground. And yet the place carries a particular quality that comes precisely from its diminished state: you are looking at the ghost of a structure rather than the thing itself.

The antiquarian Thomas Westropp noted the site in 1905, describing it and a companion enclosure nearby as two 'nearly circular' and 'nearly-levelled cahers' with 'walls of good, slab masonry', standing only rarely a few courses high. His measurements, an interior of roughly 30 to 31 metres, align closely with the more recent survey figures of 29 metres east to west and 24 metres north to south. The bank itself is around 4.2 metres wide, though it rises to an external height of only 1.2 metres at most, and just half a metre on the interior at its north-western arc. Facing-stones remain legible in the south-southeast. The site appeared on the six-inch Ordnance Survey maps of both 1842 and 1915, marked with the hachuring that cartographers used to indicate an earthwork or enclosure, though by 1996 the Record of Monuments and Places was classifying it more cautiously as an 'Enclosure'. The interior ground is uneven and rocky, with a notably irregular rocky area to the south-southwest of centre. A second cashel sits roughly 40 metres to the west-northwest, and a hut site lies about 66 metres to the south-southwest, suggesting this was once part of a small cluster of early medieval occupation rather than an isolated fortification. The high, scrubby ground offers clear views to the west, which would have made the position a considered one.