The enclosure sits in open pasture, measuring roughly 35.5 metres east to west and 29.3 metres north to south, its oval outline still legible despite centuries of collapse. A cashel is a stone-walled ringfort, the drystone equivalent of the more familiar earthen rath, and this one was substantial enough to be recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1840 and 1916, its outline marked with the radiating hachure lines surveyors used to indicate an upstanding bank or mound.

What survives today is largely a wide spread of tumbled stone rather than a standing wall, though from the south-east around to the west a single course of large boulders still forms part of an outer wall-face, rising to around 0.55 metres. On the eastern side, where an entrance causeway between 1.9 and 2.9 metres wide once gave access to the interior, shallow depressions on either side hint at a fosse, the defensive ditch that would originally have reinforced the wall. A fosse is also suggested further east along the perimeter, running two to three metres wide. Inside the enclosure the ground slopes gently downward to the east, and two short stretches of terracing survive to the south and south-south-west, set between 1.2 and 3 metres out from the base of the cashel wall, possibly remnants of a more deliberate arrangement of space around the monument. The ridge setting means the site commands open views in every direction, which was almost certainly part of the point when it was first built.