What looks at a glance like an unremarkable field boundary is in fact a cashel, the stone-built equivalent of the more familiar earthen ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead that was the standard unit of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland. Somebody, at some later point, decided the interior was a convenient place to build a small rectangular stone-walled field, overlaying the earlier monument and complicating the picture considerably.

The enclosure measures roughly 35.5 metres in internal diameter from north to south, and the defining wall, though heavily collapsed, survives best on the south-western arc, where the spread of stone reaches nearly four metres in width and the exterior face still stands close to a metre high. Beyond the main wall, the site has an outer fosse, a shallow defensive ditch around 3.5 metres wide, accompanied by a low outer bank on the north-west to north-east sector. These additional features point to a degree of elaboration that lifts it slightly above the most basic enclosures. The north-east to south-east stretch of the enclosing wall has been destroyed, making a complete circuit impossible to trace on the ground today. Michael J. Moore documented the site in the Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim, published by the Stationery Office in 2003, which remains the principal survey of the county's field monuments.