A cashel is a type of ringfort defined by its stone enclosure wall, as opposed to the earthen banks more common in other parts of Ireland, and this one was already well on its way to ruin by the time anyone thought to measure it. What survives today is less a monument than a memory of one.

When the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map was produced in 1838, the site was still recognisable as a roughly circular enclosure about thirty metres across, its interior colonised by trees and bushes. By February 1983, when the site was physically inspected, that outline had softened almost to nothing. A low mound, barely twenty centimetres high, persisted along the northern and eastern edges. Traces of the original wall revetment, the facing stones that would once have given the cashel its structural definition, survived to a width of around 1.7 metres. The interior was scattered with boulders and overgrown with scrub, the boulders almost certainly the collapsed remains of walling that had been robbed out or simply fallen in over the generations. The site sits on a natural rise, which would have made it a defensible and visible location in early medieval Ireland, when cashels like this one served as enclosed farmsteads for local farming families rather than as military fortifications in any formal sense.