Five of them, sub-circular in shape, are sunk into the interior of the enclosure, each one a possible remnant of a clochan, the corbelled drystone huts associated with early Christian monastic and rural life in Ireland. A cashel, for those unfamiliar with the term, is a stone-walled ringfort, a type of enclosed settlement common across early medieval Ireland. That these particular depressions survive at all, legible enough to suggest their original purpose, is quietly remarkable.

The five features range in diameter between 4.8 metres and 8 metres, constructed of drystone walling, meaning no mortar was used, the stones being carefully fitted to bear their own weight. Their sub-circular plans are consistent with the classic beehive hut form, where courses of stone are laid in gradually narrowing rings until they meet at a central point overhead. Whether the roofs ever fully closed in that fashion here is uncertain; what the ground preserves is the outline, the depression left by walls that have partially collapsed inward over centuries. Toal, writing in 1995, recorded all five features together within the cashel, noting their form while acknowledging that the identification as clochans remains possible rather than definitive.