Measuring roughly 24 metres east to west, it sits in a landscape hemmed in by higher ground and forestry to the south-west, which leaves it with surprisingly limited views for something built on a rise. What catches the eye is the stonework itself: what looks at first like a field boundary turns out to be a modern stone wall constructed directly on top of earlier foundations, and those foundations, on closer inspection, do not appear to be of any great antiquity either.

The enclosure was recorded as such in the early 1990s, appearing in the Sites and Monuments Record in 1992 and the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996. Its exact origins remain uncertain, but the shape and scale offer some useful clues. A cashel is a type of early medieval stone-walled enclosure, typically circular or roughly rounded, used as a farmstead or fortified homestead. The square cashels in the immediate vicinity, recorded separately, are notably similar in size and each has an associated small field system, much like the one adjacent to this enclosure. The possibility that all of these structures belong to the same period and the same agricultural tradition gives the site a context that a lone inspection might not suggest. A single ambiguous wall becomes more legible when understood as part of a wider, if modest, settled landscape.