A cashel is a stone-walled enclosure, broadly similar to a ringfort but built in dry-stone rather than earthen bank, and they are most commonly associated with the early medieval period. This one contains something that complicates the picture slightly: a small house, roughly seven metres east to west and four and a half metres north to south, whose walls have long since collapsed and been swallowed by grass, leaving a low, barely legible ridge no more than a quarter of a metre high and about eighty centimetres wide.

What makes the structure quietly odd is not the house itself but the way one of its walls behaves after the building ends. The western wall does not stop at the corner of the house; it continues running southward for a further seventeen metres, almost cutting the entire interior of the cashel in two. A separate, shorter run of similar collapsed walling, about five metres long and oriented roughly northeast to southwest, appears in the southern sector of the enclosure to the east of this extending wall. Whether these lengths of wall represent later subdivisions of the cashel interior, boundaries for livestock, or something else entirely is not recorded. The indeterminate date in the site's designation is an honest admission that the archaeology does not yield a clean answer. The building and its attendant walls sit inside a much older enclosure, but precisely when they were added, and by whom, remains open.