What makes this cashel, a type of ringfort defined by stone rather than earthen construction, quietly anomalous is the way its layers have accumulated over time without ever being fully sorted out. A later stone field boundary has been built directly on top of the original collapsed wall, the two phases of enclosure now merged into a single feature that measures somewhere between four and eight metres thick in places. Elsewhere, the surviving earth and stone bank reaches an internal height of nearly two metres and appears to be stone-faced on its outer side; part of it may even incorporate the remains of a lime kiln, a small industrial structure once used to burn limestone for agricultural or building purposes.

A cashel like this would typically have functioned as a farmstead during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, when stone-walled enclosures of this kind were common across Cork and the wider south of Ireland. The site's diameter of thirty-four metres is fairly typical for the type. What gives it a more particular texture is a detail recorded by Hartnett in 1939: the adjacent field was known locally as Páirc na Cathrach, meaning roughly the field of the stone fort, a placename that preserved the memory of the enclosure even as the enclosure itself subsided into the pasture. A spindle whorl, a small perforated disc used as a weight in hand-spinning thread, was found near the fort and is now held at University College Cork. In the north-west quadrant of the interior, there is also a possible souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage that in early medieval Ireland typically served for storage or as a place of refuge.

The interior has been planted with trees, which now mark the site from a distance and make it easier to identify from across the surrounding fields. The collapsed walling and banked sections remain visible at ground level, though the later field boundary complicates a clean reading of the original circuit.