A cashel is a dry-stone enclosure wall, typically surrounding a farmstead or small monastic cluster, and this one sits on the Corca Dhuibhne peninsula amid terrain that has accumulated layer upon layer of early medieval and prehistoric remains.

The larger of the two huts is the more instructive. It has a maximum internal diameter of 5.6 metres, with walls approximately 1.5 metres thick, though these are no longer preserved to any substantial height. The north-facing entrance passage narrows to just under a metre wide, which gives some sense of the deliberate, defensive quality of the construction. Most intriguing are the three small chambers built directly into the thickness of the hut wall itself, a technique that made practical use of the considerable mass of stone rather than leaving it as dead material. These chambers are thought to have served as sheep-shelters, which says something about the mixed domestic and agricultural character of whoever once occupied the site. The enclosure sits roughly 150 metres west of a related monument, suggesting a small cluster of activity in this part of the townland rather than an isolated structure. The description of the site was first published by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a volume that remains a key reference for the extraordinary density of early settlement remains across Corca Dhuibhne.