The hillock itself has been deliberately shaped, with its northern and western sides scarped to create a more dramatic and defensive profile. At its base, the wet, marshy ground would have provided an additional natural barrier to any would-be attackers, whilst the terrain rises to the west and northeast, giving the site a commanding position over the surrounding landscape.

The remains consist of a roughly square mound, possibly a ringwork, surrounded by a substantial stone wall or bawn that’s particularly well preserved along the northwestern and southwestern corners. This impressive wall, standing 2 metres high on the interior and reaching 3.4 metres on the exterior with a thickness of about 1 metre, was constructed from roughly coursed sandstone rubble mixed with quartz inclusions, incorporating both flat and rounded boulders. Along the southern side, the wall serves as a revetment, supporting and reinforcing the mound itself.

Whilst a long rectangular building shown on the 1901-5 Ordnance Survey map along the interior southern wall has left no visible traces, there are tantalising hints of other structures. In the northwestern corner, collapsed walling forms a rough horseshoe shape, suggesting the remains of an internal building. The Civil Survey of 1654-6 rather poetically describes the site as ‘a stumpe of a castle’, indicating that even by the mid-17th century, this fortification had already fallen into considerable ruin, leaving only fragments of what was once likely an impressive defensive structure.