What looks at ground level like a broken, grass-smothered ring of stones is, in aerial imagery, the ghost of something more deliberate: a cashel, the Irish term for a stone-walled ringfort, originally closer to circular in plan, now distorted into a suboval form by centuries of agricultural reuse.

The enclosure sits on a gentle south-south-west-facing slope among the undulating pastureland and exposed karst limestone outcrops that define so much of the Clare landscape. Its interior measures roughly 45 metres on the north-east to south-west axis and 32.6 metres across, making it a substantial structure. The wall itself tells a story of layered occupation: from the south-east to south-west, where it survives best, it still reads as a proper double-faced randomly coursed stone wall, nearly three metres wide, with large limestone uprights visible within its fabric and field-clearance rubble packed against the outer face. Further around, the picture deteriorates. From the north through to the south-east, a later field wall, running north-west to south-east, has been built directly over the collapsed cashel wall, burying and obscuring it. That later wall clipped the original enclosure at its west and north edges, shearing off part of the circuit. Aerial imagery from the early 2010s was what finally revealed the full outline, including the section of cashel wall that survives to the north-west of the intruding field boundary, invisible from the ground. Inside the enclosure, a subrectangular area roughly 13 by 9 metres is outlined by its own low, grass-covered collapsed wall, possibly an internal division of the kind sometimes used to separate living quarters from animal enclosures within a ringfort. A telegraph pole, erected in the northern sector at some point, adds a final layer of incongruity to the site's long history of incremental alteration.