The headland it occupies is known only from aerial observation; no ground survey has been carried out, and it does not appear on Ordnance Survey maps. That a defensive settlement of this kind could remain so thoroughly unvisited and uncatalogued into the twenty-first century says something about just how remote this corner of mountainous bog really is.

What the aerial view reveals is still legible enough. A rectangular headland, roughly 250 metres long and 45 metres wide, juts out to the northwest, flanked on either side by sheer cliffs that would have made lateral attack effectively impossible. Across the neck of the headland, where land meets land, the faint traces of an earthen bank and ditch are visible. This is the defining feature of a promontory fort, a type of coastal enclosure found widely along the Irish Atlantic seaboard, in which a natural landform does most of the defensive work and a single barrier seals the only accessible approach. Along the eastern cliff edge within the interior, several circular hutsites can be made out, the low rounded platforms that indicate where people once lived, worked, or sheltered. The higher ground to the south overlooks the whole site, which would have made it tactically awkward as a stronghold, though the cliffs on the flanks perhaps compensated. The detailed description of this site comes from the 1999 MA thesis of Markus Casey, a survey of coastal promontory forts across counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway, and Clare, submitted to the National University of Ireland, Galway, and it remains one of the few records of the place in any form.

Because the site has never been visited on the ground by researchers, there is no practical guidance on how to reach it or what the approach involves. The surrounding terrain, mountainous bog in a genuinely isolated area, gives some indication of why that remains the case.