It is a cashel, a type of ringfort defined by stone rather than earthen banks, and what survives here is fragmentary enough that its outline requires some patience to read on the ground.

The site is subcircular, measuring roughly 21 metres north to south and 17.5 metres east to west. Along the arc running from east-south-east to south-west, a stony bank still stands, varying in width from about 1.7 to 2.7 metres and in height from 0.3 to 0.8 metres, with a low revetment of boulders along both its inner and outer faces. Revetment here simply means a facing of stone used to stabilise and retain the bank material. To the west, only slight traces of the bank remain. The northern and eastern edges take a different form altogether: here the builders cut into the hillslope itself, leaving a sharp drop of around a metre, which may once have carried a stone wall along its crest. No entrance is legible today, and no internal features have been identified. Cashels of this kind were typically enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, when stone was the natural building material in areas where it lay readily to hand. This one is modest in scale, the sort of enclosure that would have sheltered a single family and their livestock rather than a seat of power.