A cashel is a stone-walled enclosure of early medieval Irish origin, and this roughly circular example once contained not just an interior settlement but huts or chambers built directly into the thickness of its enclosing wall. One of those wall-chambers, described by a former landowner, measured about three feet square with a flagged roof. None of these are now discernible on the ground.

The Co. Kerry Field Club visited and recorded the site on several occasions between 1945 and 1953, noting the wall-chambers as well as the foundations of a large circular hut in the interior, around twelve feet in diameter. Within that interior hut, they recorded indications of souterrains, the term used for underground stone-lined passages associated with early Irish settlements, most likely used for storage or concealment. The combination of wall-chambers, a substantial interior structure, and possible underground passages suggests this was once a reasonably complex and carefully organised enclosure, even if the landscape now gives little away. The site was further documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, which remains a key reference for the archaeology of Corca Dhuibhne.