The site is a cashel, a type of ringfort defined by a drystone wall rather than an earthen bank, and this one has collapsed to the point where its interior is entirely impenetrable, a tangle of overgrowth that has swallowed whatever once lay within. The enclosing wall, where it can be made out between the vegetation, survives to an internal height of about 0.7 metres and spans an overall width of 5.4 metres, dimensions that suggest a once-substantial structure even in its ruined state. The enclosure itself is roughly oval, measuring approximately 50 metres on its north-west to south-east axis and 44 metres across.

The antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp recorded the site in his survey published between 1914 and 1916, assigning it the label 'J' on a map he titled the 'Gorteen Group of Forts'. His description was brief but telling: he called it 'a defaced cathair', using the Irish term for a stone-walled ringfort. Westropp was documenting a cluster of related enclosures in the area, and this smaller example sat at the edge of that group. The 25-inch Ordnance Survey map also captured its oval outline before the woodland closed in further. At some later point, a separate drystone field wall was constructed directly on top of the south-east to south-west portion of the original enclosing elements, running along an east-north-east to west-south-west axis. It is a common enough story in the Irish landscape: agricultural need quietly cannibalising an older monument, leaving the two phases of construction fused together and increasingly difficult to read.