The structure measures roughly fifteen metres west-northwest to east-southeast and about twelve metres on its northeast-southwest axis, making it a modest but legible presence in the landscape, its defining stone wall still tracing a roughly subcircular outline across the hillside.

The site is classified as a possible cashel, which is the Irish term for a stone-walled ringfort, the drystone equivalent of the more familiar earthen rath. Cashels are generally associated with the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries, and typically served as enclosed farmsteads for a single family or small social unit. Stone construction was common in areas where rock was more readily available than the soil needed for earthen banks, and the Burren and its surrounds in County Clare are precisely that kind of landscape. The qualification "possibly" attached to this particular site matters: without excavation, it is difficult to confirm whether the enclosure is genuinely a cashel or simply a field boundary or enclosure of later date. It was noted by Ross Ó Maoldúin, and its visibility on aerial imagery is what brought it into the record at all, the kind of quiet discovery that happens at a desk as much as in a field.