A cashel is a dry-stone walled enclosure, typically of early medieval date, used to shelter both people and livestock. What makes this particular site quietly arresting is not its scale but its detail: step inside one of the huts and you find not a bare shell but a space that was once carefully organised, with small stone cupboards built into the wall and a hidden entrance to an underground chamber below your feet.

One of the better-preserved huts lies a little north-east of the cashel's centre. Internally it measures roughly 4.8 metres by 4.4 metres, and its wall still stands to 2.25 metres on the outer face in places, though the upper portion of that masonry represents later rebuilding rather than original construction. The west-facing entrance is narrow even by early medieval standards, just under 60 centimetres wide and 76 centimetres high above the present ground surface, and is now partly blocked by collapse. Beside it, built into the wall just south of the doorway, a lintelled recess marks where a souterrain once began. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage, often used for storage or refuge, though the one here is no longer accessible. The lintel over its entrance was put to further use as the base of a wall-cupboard, with a second cupboard stacked directly above it. A third cupboard sits north of the entrance, half a metre wide, forty centimetres high, and fifty centimetres deep. These are not incidental features; they speak to a domestic life that was organised, specific, and worth recording in stone. The site was documented by J. Cuppage as part of the Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey, published in 1986.