The road, running roughly west-northwest to east-southeast, grazes the site at its north-northwest and northeast edges, shaving the perimeter of a stone enclosure that was built long before anyone thought to lay tarmac across this part of Connacht.

A cashel is a ringfort built primarily from stone rather than earth and timber, and this one has an internal diameter of approximately 30 metres. It came to wider attention through LiDAR imagery, a remote-sensing technology that uses laser pulses to map ground surfaces through vegetation and obscuring growth, which allowed researchers to read the landscape with unusual precision. FitzPatrick noted the site in 2019. That survey revealed more than the outline of the enclosing bank. The northwest quadrant of the bank has a notably high stone content, suggesting either differential survival or variation in the original construction method. Within the interior, the LiDAR image shows what may be a rectangular building in the western half, and what appears to be an internal division running on a rough north-south axis, bisecting the space. Such internal arrangements are not unusual in cashels, which were typically the homesteads of farming families of some local standing during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. What makes this site particularly legible is the landscape around it: a series of small fields and plots in the surrounding area may represent an associated field system, the agricultural patchwork that would have sustained whoever lived within those stone walls.