A cashel is a type of early medieval stone enclosure, essentially a farmstead or defended settlement surrounded by a dry-laid stone wall, and this one is unusual in that so much of what it once contained is still visible, even if only just. The site currently holds five structures in varying states of preservation, but earlier investigators recorded more, and the enclosing wall itself has clearly been altered many times since the place was first documented in the nineteenth century.

The clocháns, or corbelled drystone huts built by laying each successive ring of stones slightly inward until the opening is small enough to cap with a few flat flags, vary considerably in shape and size. The largest, roughly circular and five metres across internally, has an entrance flanked on each side by a standing stone about a metre high, and a souterrain, an underground passage sometimes used for storage or refuge, opening into it at floor level just south of the doorway. Two of the huts share a rectangular enclosure between them, about seven and a half metres east to west. When the artist and antiquarian George Victor Du Noyer visited the site in the nineteenth century, he noted two small chambers in the corners of this enclosure and described them as still perfect. The archaeologist R. A. S. Macalister later confirmed their presence. Neither survives today. Macalister also recorded several further hut foundations in the north and northeast of the interior, of which only faint traces now remain. The account compiled by J. Cuppage for the 1986 Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey noted that both the enclosing wall and the interior had undergone considerable change even within the period of recorded observation, which gives the site a slightly unsettling quality, as though it is still in the process of disappearing.