Where a typical ringfort relied on ditches and ramparts of soil, a cashel used dry-laid stone, mortarless and carefully stacked, to enclose a farmstead and its inhabitants. This one has largely fallen into itself, its narrow wall reduced to a ragged collapse, and the original entrance has been lost entirely beneath the slow work of vegetation and time.

What makes this site particularly elusive is its absence from the Ordnance Survey maps of both 1836 and 1876. By those decades, Irish cartographers were systematically recording antiquities across the country, and the omission suggests the cashel was either too obscured or too little-known to register with surveyors passing through. The enclosure itself is a raised oval measuring roughly 33 metres on its longer northeast to southwest axis and around 23 metres across, dimensions that would once have encompassed a small agricultural settlement, most likely of early medieval date. Ringforts of this kind were the standard unit of rural life in Ireland between roughly the sixth and twelfth centuries, each one the fortified homestead of a farming family.