It is, in fact, a cashel, the term used for a ringfort constructed from stone rather than earth and timber. Where the more familiar earthen ringfort, or rath, relied on banked ditches, a cashel uses mortarless dry-stone walling to define its territory, and this one does so with considerable substance: the enclosing wall runs to a base width of 4.7 metres, stands 1.2 metres on the interior face and 1.7 metres on the exterior, and encloses a roughly circular area measuring 31 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west.

Ringforts of this kind are generally associated with early medieval Ireland, roughly the period between the fifth and twelfth centuries, when they served as farmsteads and enclosures for livestock rather than as military fortifications in any modern sense. Thousands survive across the island in various states of preservation, though stone-built examples like this one are less common than their earthen counterparts and tend to cluster in areas where field stone was plentiful. The site in Tuogh townland was recorded and compiled by Denis Power, with the record uploaded in August 2011. Aerial photographs taken by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland in March 2006 document the structure from above, offering a clearer sense of its circular geometry than ground-level inspection alone allows. The entrance, 4.6 metres wide, faces north-north-west, a directional choice documented across multiple cashel sites though not yet fully explained by archaeologists.

The interior is currently given over to rough grazing, and the enclosing wall has been colonised by scrub and trees, which both protects the stonework from casual disturbance and makes the full circuit of the wall difficult to trace at ground level. The site sits in gently undulating pasture on a low ridge, so the slight elevation is perceptible underfoot even if it does not announce itself dramatically in the landscape. Anyone approaching should expect overgrown conditions and look for the wall's outer face, which at 1.7 metres still carries enough height in places to read clearly as a deliberate structure rather than a natural feature.