What makes this place quietly odd is the modesty of its defences relative to its evident purpose. A bank and ditch cut the promontory off from the mainland, but the bank rises only a metre above the ditch floor and stretches a mere seven metres in length. For a promontory fort, a class of enclosure in which a headland's natural inaccessibility is reinforced by earthworks across its landward neck, that is a remarkably slight barrier. No gap or entrance through the bank can be identified, and the interior beyond it extends some thirty metres before narrowing again into a circular platform at the very tip, separated from the rest of the headland by a thin neck of ground. The remains of a wall around the edge of this platform are still visible, giving it the character of a lookout or refuge within a refuge.

The antiquarian T. J. Westropp recorded the site in 1914, and the fort has deteriorated since his visit. The cliff edge to the southeast has been losing ground, and a cross-section exposed in the cliff face reveals an old ground layer sitting around 0.3 metres below the present surface, a detail that hints at the depth of time separating the fort's construction from the landscape as it appears today. The site does not appear on Ordnance Survey maps, which may partly explain why it has attracted relatively little attention. It sits amid coarse grazing and bog, overlooked by higher ground inland, though the coastal view from the promontory itself is wide and clear. Markus Casey included it in a 1999 survey of coastal promontory forts across Sligo, Mayo, Galway, and Clare, which remains one of the more systematic attempts to document this category of site along Ireland's western seaboard.