The monument is a cashel, a type of ringfort built from drystone rather than earthen banks, and at roughly thirty metres across it would once have enclosed a farmstead of the early medieval period, its walls providing both a boundary and a degree of defence for whoever lived within. Today, those walls are poorly preserved, and the cashel's perimeter has been further interrupted by the encroachment of later agricultural boundaries.

Two field walls tell the story of the site's gradual absorption into the working landscape around it. One cuts directly across the monument in the south-east sector, while another overlies it to the south-west, each representing a moment when a farmer drew a new line across older ground without, or perhaps despite, knowing what lay beneath the stones he was rearranging. This kind of incremental erasure is common across Ireland, where early medieval enclosures have been quarried, ploughed, and walled over for centuries. What survives here is fragmentary, but the basic circular form, defined by the remnants of its drystone wall, remains traceable in the scrubland.