A cashel is a stone-walled ringfort, a form of enclosed farmstead common across early medieval Ireland, and this particular enclosure is its smaller, less immediately legible neighbour: twelve metres in diameter, defined by a double-faced drystone wall, the kind of construction where two parallel lines of stone are laid with rubble packed between them to give the wall its bulk and stability.

What makes the enclosure especially interesting is what survives inside it. Towards the north-western corner of the interior, a smaller oval structure sits within the larger ring, measuring roughly four metres north to south and three metres east to west, also built in drystone. It may represent the remains of a house site, the foundations or lower courses of a dwelling that once stood within the enclosure. If so, the arrangement tells a small but legible story about how people organised domestic space in this part of Galway, nesting a living area within a protected perimeter, itself positioned against the wall of a larger cashel next door. Whether the two structures were in use simultaneously, or whether one predates the other, is not recorded, and that uncertainty is part of what makes the place worth thinking about. The archaeology here is not dramatic, but it is precise, and precision in drystone construction tends to outlast almost everything else.