That inversion, a sunken interior rather than a raised one, gives the site a quietly unsettling quality, as though the land itself has subsided inward over the centuries since the structure was built. A cashel is a ringfort enclosed by a drystone wall rather than an earthen bank, and this example preserves its circular form with an internal diameter of around 25 metres, its narrow wall still largely intact.

The site was already old enough to be considered a landmark when the Ordnance Survey mapped it in 1836 and again in 1876, each time marking it simply as "Fort". The original entrance was probably on the southern side, a common orientation for ringforts across Ireland, where the south-facing aspect offered practical advantages in both light and shelter. Along the western stretch of the interior wall face, two large stones survive that may be the remnants of a house site, the kind of modest domestic structure that once made these enclosures the farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, places where a family and their livestock could be protected within the circuit of a wall.