This rocky stronghold once commanded a strategic position overlooking a ford across the River Finn, where travellers and traders would have crossed the waters for centuries. Local accounts suggest it was a substantial stone-built monument, though its exact age and original purpose remain lost to time; whether it served as a defensive structure, a lookout post, or held some other significance to the communities that lived along the river.

In 2007, archaeologist Mary Henry conducted an investigation just west of where an ancient enclosure once stood, near the site of a national school extension. Her team dug three test trenches, hoping to uncover traces of the area's past before modern construction began. What they found instead was evidence of recent human activity; the land behind the existing school had been heavily modified, with infill reaching depths of 1.4 metres in some places, the result of modern landscaping efforts. Only in the third trench did they reach natural soil at a more modest 0.46 metres below the surface.

Despite the proximity to the historic enclosure site, no archaeological features or artefacts emerged from the excavations. The absence of finds doesn't diminish the area's historical importance, however; it simply means that whatever stories the soil might have held were either destroyed during the school's original construction or lie elsewhere, waiting to be discovered. The legacy of Cashel Corky and the ancient enclosure remain part of Dooish's rich heritage, even if their physical traces have largely vanished from the landscape.