What makes it quietly absorbing is not any dramatic height or obvious monument, but rather the density of what survives within its relatively modest frame. The enclosing bank, built of stone rather than earth, marks this out as a cashel or cahir, the Irish terms for a stone-walled ringfort, as distinct from the earthen raths more commonly associated with early medieval settlement. Here the bank is broad and low, between four and nearly nine metres wide at the base, rising just 1.6 metres above the interior floor. It is, in other words, less a defensive wall than a clear territorial statement, something that said: this space is bounded, organised, inhabited.

Inside that boundary, the remains are unusually legible. At the centre of the enclosure sits a house-site measuring roughly 18.4 metres north to south and 10.2 metres east to west, possibly divided in two by an internal stone wall, with a narrow entrance on its eastern side. A ridge runs southwest from one corner of the house to meet the enclosing bank, while raised areas extend from two other corners to touch the bank on the north-east and north-west. The effect, read as a plan, suggests a settlement that used nearly the full interior, with the house anchoring an organised arrangement of space. In the southern part of the enclosure, two apparent openings once led down into a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage of the kind used in early medieval Ireland for storage or, in times of trouble, concealment. That souterrain is now blocked. To the south of the cashel lies a possible burial ground, and immediately to its south and south-west are ground disturbances that may carry their own archaeological significance, though their precise relationship to the fort remains uncertain. The site was documented by C. Toal in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995.