A cashel is a ringfort built from stone rather than earth and timber, and this one, roughly subcircular in plan and measuring about 37 metres north to south and 34 metres east to west, is notable less for what survives than for the quiet way it has retreated into the ground. Its drystone wall, once the defining boundary of a settlement or farmstead, is now largely grassed over, most legible along the northwest to north arc where it still reads as a wall rather than a rumple in the field.

From the north, continuing east and round to the south, the wall has been reduced to a low foundation line, barely suggesting its original height. Where the wall gives out entirely, from south around to northwest, the enclosure is defined instead by a natural or artificially enhanced scarp, a cut or slope in the ground that served the same purpose of demarcation. Abutting the southern wall is a small rectangular stone structure, considered probably modern in origin, perhaps a later field boundary or shelter making opportunistic use of the older stonework. Two further ringforts lie within a few hundred metres, one about 130 metres to the northwest and another roughly 180 metres to the northeast, suggesting this corner of North Galway was once a settled and organised farming landscape, its individual enclosures now slowly merging back into the fields that have long since absorbed them.