Cashels are dry-stone ringforts, circular or oval enclosures typically built during the early medieval period as farmsteads or places of refuge, and this one contains within its bounds something even more compressed and domestic: a hut site whose walls still stand, low but legible, after many centuries.

The hut itself is modest in every dimension. Oval in plan, it measures roughly four metres on its longer north-west to south-east axis and about two and a half metres across. Its defining wall, between nine centimetres and a metre point two wide and still reaching somewhere between half a metre and seventy centimetres in height, is enough to trace the outline of what was once a sheltered interior. The positioning in the south-western corner of the cashel is characteristic of early medieval building practice, where subsidiary structures were often placed against or near the inner face of the enclosing wall, drawing on it for shelter and structural economy. The result was a layered arrangement of space, with the main enclosure providing one ring of protection and the hut wall providing another, smaller one within it.