A cashel is a type of early Irish stone enclosure, roughly equivalent to a ringfort but built from dry-stone walling rather than earthen banks, and they typically served as defended farmsteads during the early medieval period. That the interior of this one contains what appears to be a separate circular structure suggests a domestic arrangement that was once quite ordinary and is now almost entirely erased.

The structure measures roughly 4.5 metres in diameter and survives to a height of only 0.8 metres, which gives some sense of how much time has worn it down. Circular stone houses of this kind were a common building form in early medieval Ireland, their walls thick enough to support a conical thatched or wooden roof, their interiors small by modern standards but sufficient for the household activities of the period. Whether this particular example dates to the same period as the cashel it sits within, or whether it represents a later reuse of the enclosure, is not known. The date remains, as the record puts it, indeterminate.