Almost nothing of it can be seen today, yet for decades it attracted the attention of researchers who disagreed, in their careful way, about what exactly had been there at all.

A cashel is a stone-walled ringfort, the kind of enclosed farmstead that was common across early medieval Ireland, typically circular and bounded by one or more thick dry-stone walls. At this particular site, the writer Redington, noting the feature in 1912, found a circle of very large stones but could not establish whether they had ever formed more than a single wall. Forty years later, McCaffrey returned to the same question. He recorded a ring of stones roughly 33 metres in diameter and suggested that what survived represented just one face of an original surrounding wall, implying the wall itself had once been considerably more substantial. Both observers also noted the presence of a souterrain centrally placed within the enclosure. A souterrain is an underground passage or chamber, usually stone-lined, associated with early medieval settlement sites and thought to have served for storage, refuge, or ventilation. The combination of a stone enclosure and a souterrain points to a site of some significance in its time. No visible surface trace of any of this survives today.