This nearly circular enclosure measures 19.8 metres across its interior and is surrounded by a collapsed stone wall that still reaches up to 1.2 metres wide in places, though it now stands no more than 46 centimetres high. The weathered stones have settled into the landscape over centuries, creating a subtle but unmistakable outline against the bog.

Two field walls extend from the cashel’s perimeter, one heading south and another stretching west;north;west, suggesting this fortified farmstead was once integrated into a larger agricultural system. These connecting walls would have divided the surrounding land into manageable plots, typical of how ringforts functioned as both defensive structures and working farms during the early medieval period. The choice of location, sheltered at the valley’s edge where the slope meets the bogland, would have offered both protection from the elements and access to different types of terrain for varied agricultural use.

The site was documented as part of the Archaeological Survey of County Donegal, a comprehensive catalogue compiled by Brian Lacey and his team in 1983 that recorded field antiquities from the Mesolithic period through to the 17th century. Like many of Donegal’s estimated 400 ringforts, this cashel likely dates from the early medieval period, roughly between the 5th and 12th centuries, when such structures dotted the Irish landscape as symbols of status and centres of rural life.