Traces of old cultivation ridges cross that rise on an east-west axis, suggesting the enclosed ground was worked at some point. And then, layered quietly over all of that: the enclosure was also used as a children's burial ground. That combination of agricultural use and informal burial within the same ancient walls is the kind of compressed history that tends not to announce itself.

The structure is a cashel, the term used for a ringfort defined by a drystone wall rather than an earthen bank and ditch. The wall here is substantial, between 3.3 and 4 metres wide, constructed in random rubble with larger stones visible at the base. It encloses a roughly circular area of about 32 metres across, set on a north-west-facing slope with open views sweeping from south-west to north-east. The wall stands tallest on its exterior face at the north and north-east, where the ground naturally falls away, reaching between 1.35 and 1.75 metres on that outer face, while the interior face is lower and largely tumbled. The wall has not survived intact; at the south-west, a later linear field wall has replaced a section of it, and at the south-east, a field boundary has been incorporated into the cashel wall, though it follows the original curve of the enclosure rather than cutting across it. Both gaps that once served as entrances, one at the south and one at the north-west, are now blocked. A sod-covered terrace about 4 metres wide projects outward from the base of the wall on the west to north-east side, its outer edge defined by an irregular scarp roughly a metre high, though part of that scarp has been quarried away at the north. Loose stone heaped along the wall top appears to be field clearance material, the accumulated result of generations of farming around and within the enclosure.