A cashel is a stone-walled enclosure, typically of early medieval date, built to enclose a farmstead or small settlement. Within one such enclosure here, a roughly subrectangular hut survives in fragmentary form, measuring around ten metres east to west and eight and a half metres north to south. What makes it quietly curious is its incompleteness: the southern and eastern sides are defined by an earthen and stone bank, the western side borrows the cashel wall itself, and the northern side is simply open. Whether that northern gap is original or the result of later collapse and disappearance is impossible to say without excavation.

The bank that does survive is substantial enough to read clearly on the ground, running to about three and a half metres in width, with an internal height of around 0.75 metres and an external height of roughly 0.4 metres, suggesting the interior floor sat slightly higher than the surrounding ground level, or that the bank was built up more prominently on the inside. More intriguing still is a souterrain in the north-eastern sector of the hut, abutting its internal wall. A souterrain is an underground passage or chamber, usually of dry-stone construction, associated with early medieval settlement sites across Ireland and thought to have served for storage or, in some interpretations, as a place of refuge. The proximity of the souterrain to the hut wall hints at a close functional relationship between the two features, though precisely how they were used together remains a matter of inference. Today, trees and bushes have colonised the top of the bank, softening its edges and making its full extent harder to trace from ground level.