A cashel is a roughly circular stone enclosure, typically of early medieval date, built to define a farmstead or protected dwelling. This structure, open to the north and defined by a low wall no more than thirty centimetres high, reads more like a sheltered recess than a house in any conventional sense, yet it was considered substantial enough to record as a building.

The site occupies a gently undulating karst plateau, that distinctive limestone landscape common to parts of County Clare where the bedrock lies close to the surface and drainage behaves in unexpected ways. The structure measures roughly five and a half metres north to south and two metres east to west internally, with walls just under a metre wide. Its date remains indeterminate. Whether it belongs to the same period as the cashel enclosure surrounding it, or represents a later episode of use within those boundaries, is not known. The relationship between a cashel and the structures found inside it can be complicated; enclosures were sometimes reused across centuries, with later occupants adding walls or shelters that bear no direct connection to the original build.