The monument consists of an impressive raised square platform, measuring approximately 37 metres by 43 metres, which would have once supported a timber hall or manor house. From here, you can spot Ballysheeda tower house about 1.4 kilometres to the north, suggesting this area was once home to several important medieval settlements.

The platform is surrounded by the remains of a low earthen bank, now largely reduced to a scarp that ranges from half a metre to four metres in height. Beyond this defensive bank lies a broad, flat-bottomed fosse or ditch, typically three to five metres wide and up to three metres deep in places, which would have been filled with water in medieval times. The southwest corner of the site remains the best preserved section, where both the scarp reaches its greatest height and the fosse achieves its maximum depth.

Unfortunately, quarrying activities have damaged the northern half of the monument, destroying portions of the interior platform, the enclosing bank and the fosse on that side. This destruction has caused the interior to slope quite dramatically from south to north, though this gradient may be exaggerated by the quarrying damage. No original entrance feature survives, making it difficult to determine how residents would have accessed the platform, though a wooden bridge or causeway across the fosse would have been typical for such sites during the medieval period.