What gives it particular interest is the precision of its survival: the wall, averaging two and a half metres wide and still standing between forty and eighty centimetres high, retains both its inner and outer facing of horizontally laid thin slabs, with a short stretch of double-wall construction running from the south-south-east to the south-south-west. That kind of careful stonework is characteristic of a cashel, the Irish term for a stone-built ringfort, a form of enclosed farmstead that was widespread in early medieval Ireland, typically associated with a family of some local standing.

The enclosure measures roughly 22.4 metres east to west and 22 metres north to south, making it a modest but coherent example of its type. Within it, the foundations of at least two hut sites survive pressed against the interior face of the wall, one to the north-west and one to the north-east, suggesting that people once lived and worked inside this enclosure, using the wall as both boundary and shelter. Two gaps in the wall, one a metre wide to the east and a narrower one to the west, are thought to have been caused by cattle rather than original design. The site sits within a multiperiod field system, meaning the surrounding landscape carries its own layered history of boundaries and land use from different eras. It was already recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map in its 1916 edition, and was classified as an enclosure in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996.