This is a cashel, the term used for a ringfort built from drystone rather than earthen banks, and what survives here is almost circular, roughly 25 metres across. The defining wall has fallen in on itself, and from the northern arc around through the east to the south-east, vegetation has swallowed it almost entirely. That a structure can be so thoroughly consumed by its own surroundings while still occupying the same ground it always has is, in its way, a quietly unsettling thing.

What makes the site more than a simple ruin is the small stone structure clinging to the inner face of the cashel wall at the south-south-west. Roughly D-shaped, about 2.9 metres long and 2.4 metres wide, it is thought to have been a dwelling of some kind, a modest domestic space pressed against the interior of the enclosing wall in a manner typical of early medieval settlement in Ireland. Cashels of this type were generally built and occupied during the first millennium, functioning as farmsteads for a single family or small kin group. The site sits within a broader landscape of activity too: another enclosure lies just 100 metres to the south-west, suggesting this was once part of a more populated stretch of countryside than it now appears.