What survives is a cashel, a type of ringfort built from dry-stone walling rather than earthen banks, and this one has been collapsing slowly enough that its outer shell still reads as a coherent ring, even if only just. The wall collapse measures between three and four metres wide and stands no higher than just over a metre at its tallest point, which gives some sense of how substantial the original structure once was. The interior spans roughly fifteen and a half metres across, a space that would once have enclosed a farmstead or settlement of early medieval Ireland.

The site sits within a broader landscape of undulating pasture and overgrown limestone crag, the kind of terrain common to the Clare countryside where thin soils give way unpredictably to bare rock. It appears on both the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 and the later Cassini edition of 1920, marked with hachures that indicate an enclosure of some kind. By 1996, when it was formally listed in the Record of Monuments and Places, it had been classified simply as an enclosure, a cautious designation that the physical remains do not quite do justice to. The subcircular plan and the thickness of the collapsed dry-stone wall point clearly to a cashel rather than an earthwork, and the woodland that has grown up around and over it has, if anything, preserved it from more active disturbance, even as it makes the structure harder to read at ground level.