What makes this particular example quietly arresting is not what survives but what surrounds it: a second cashel sits clearly visible roughly 70 metres to the south-west, and both structures sit within the remains of a large ancient field system. Four such ring-walls once occupied this stretch of mountain, and standing among the wildflowers of the interior, you are looking at the last remnant of a small prehistoric and early medieval landscape that has almost entirely dissolved back into the hillside.

The antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp noted the group in 1901, describing four ring-walls of roughly 100 feet, about 30 metres, in diameter, and observing that three had already been levelled and the fourth was nearly gone. That assessment has not improved with time. What remains today is a roughly circular enclosure with an internal diameter of 17.5 metres, its bank of stone and earth partially collapsed to a height of between 0.3 and 1 metre on the interior side. The outer wall facing holds up best along the south-east and western arcs, reaching 0.5 to 0.8 metres in places. A slightly wider, lower section on the east-north-east, around 3 metres across, is thought to mark the original entrance. The cashel appeared on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 and was hachured again on the later Cassini edition of 1915, suggesting it was recognisable, if already diminished, well into the twentieth century.