The cattle grazing inside this cashel, a type of ringfort defined by a dry-stone wall rather than the more common earthen bank and ditch, have broken through the south-western side of the structure, leaving a convenient gap that their prehistoric-era builders could not have anticipated. It is an oddly fitting arrangement: the enclosure was almost certainly used to protect livestock in the early medieval period, and it is doing more or less the same job now, a thousand or more years later.

The cashel forms a raised circular area with an internal diameter of roughly 23 metres, its perimeter built from boulders rather than dressed stone. Unlike many comparable sites, there is no fosse, the term for the external ditch that typically accompanies earthen ringforts and sometimes stone ones too. Whether the original builders considered one unnecessary, or whether the ground conditions made it impractical, is unclear. What is equally lost is the location of the original entrance. The breach made by cattle on the south-western side has muddied the evidence, and no trace of a formal gateway survives. The site sits in open pasture and affords good views to the north, a positioning that would have had both practical and social value for whoever lived and worked here during the early medieval centuries when cashels of this kind were in common use across Ireland.