Its enclosing stone wall, a cashel, which is the term for a ringfort built from dry-stone rather than earthen banks, has weathered badly over the centuries. What remains measures roughly 3.5 metres in width, but the exterior face has collapsed to barely 40 centimetres in height, while the interior still stands at just over two metres in places, giving the peculiar impression of a wall that has sunk into the ground on one side. A gap of around two metres on the western side is thought to mark the original entrance.

Cashels of this kind were typically built during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and served as enclosed farmsteads for a single family or small household. The choice of stone over earth usually reflects local geology rather than any particular status, and in Tipperary, where good building stone is reasonably accessible, cashels are not uncommon. What makes this one quietly notable is the contrast between its internal height and its near-vanished exterior, a disparity that speaks to the way these structures were built into and around sloping ground, using the natural lie of the land rather than working against it. No souterrains, annexes, or internal features have been recorded here, leaving it as a bare enclosure, its function legible only in its shape.