A cashel, which is a type of ringfort defined by a stone enclosing wall rather than an earthen bank and ditch, sits on gently undulating rough pasture, and most of what once made it substantial has long since collapsed or been robbed away. The interior measures roughly 24.5 metres east to west and 23 metres north to south, and the wall that once enclosed it now presents itself in three very different states depending on where you look: a stretch of double-faced stonework to the north-east still stands to a modest height, the south and west have degraded into a low scarp barely 0.4 metres high, and much of the remainder is simply a grassed-over spread of stone, flush with the surrounding field.

When the antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp visited and recorded it in 1915, he noted what he described as the lowest courses of a well-built ring wall of excellent masonry, which suggests that even a century ago the structure retained enough character to hint at real quality. The site appears on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps from both 1842 and 1920, marked with the hachured symbol used to indicate an earthwork or enclosure, confirming it was a recognised feature in the landscape well before modern archaeological recording caught up with it. The cashel sits within a large multiperiod field system, meaning the land around it accumulated boundaries and divisions across many centuries, and the low terracing visible to the south-west of the cashel is not an ancient feature but the result of later quarrying, presumably drawing on the same stone that once formed the enclosure wall itself. That detail is quietly telling: the same material that made the cashel is likely what diminished it.