The enclosure is classified as a cashel, the term used for a ringfort whose boundary is formed by a drystone wall rather than an earthen bank, and here that wall crowns a natural rock outcrop that drops away sharply to the south and west. The site reads less like a construction imposed on the landscape and more like a subtle reinforcement of what the landscape was already doing.

The wall itself is built from unmortared stone, running around the hilltop to enclose an oval interior measuring roughly 47 metres north to south and nearly 57 metres east to west. Its dimensions vary depending on the terrain beneath it. Where the rock face falls away steeply, the builders had less need of height; where the ground levels off to the north and east, the wall was made more substantial, reaching up to 1.25 metres on its outer face. That logic has not entirely survived: the north-eastern quadrant has been robbed, the stones presumably taken for field walls or farm buildings at some point over the centuries, a fate common to isolated masonry across rural Ireland. Inside, the ground is not flat but rises gently towards the centre of the enclosure, following the natural contour of the outcrop beneath.