A cashel is a stone-walled enclosure, typically circular or oval, used in early medieval Ireland to enclose a farmstead or small settlement. That the buildings inside this one were ever domestic structures is legible only in the outlines of their walls, and even those outlines range from well-defined to barely traceable.

The four houses occupy different quarters of the cashel interior, and their varying states of preservation suggest a long and layered history of use. The best-preserved of the group sits in the north-west quadrant and measures roughly six metres by four. Its double-faced stone walls, where one skin of stone faces inward and another faces outward with rubble between, are still clearly readable on the ground. It also overlies part of a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage typically associated with storage or refuge, which hints that this corner of the cashel was in use across more than one phase of occupation. A second house, larger at approximately eight metres by five, abuts the cashel's north-east wall and may have been divided into two rooms, though its remains are poorly preserved. A third, of unknown original size, survives only in its north and west wall foundations near the cashel entrance on the south-east side, and has been partly obscured by a later wall built over it. The fourth is perhaps the most enigmatic: a low platform in the southern sector, edged by large stone blocks and measuring just six metres by two and a half, whose function is not entirely clear. The site was noted by McCaffrey in 1952.