The site at Caherateemore is a cashel, a type of ringfort built from stone rather than earth and timber, in which a roughly circular enclosure wall once defined a farmstead or small defended compound. At fifty metres in diameter, this would have been a substantial structure in its day, the kind of place that housed a farming household of some local standing. Now it survives as little more than a collapsed ring in the grass, its drystone wall long since fallen and, in part, conscripted into a later field boundary.

The name Caherateemore itself carries traces of the original Gaelic, with "cathair" referring to a stone fort of this kind, suggesting the cashel gave its identity to the landscape long before cartographers arrived. The site sits in level grassland, which would have made it conspicuous to anyone approaching across open country, a quality that was presumably part of the point. Cashels of this type were typically built during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, when the ringfort in its various forms was the dominant settlement type across Ireland. The collapsed drystone wall at Caherateemore is overlain by a later field wall, a common fate for prehistoric and early medieval stonework in agricultural landscapes, where convenient dressed or fitted stone was rarely left untouched by subsequent generations.

A small patch of original facing stones is still visible on the south-eastern arc of the enclosure, offering the clearest indication of what the structure once looked like: carefully laid courses of undressed stone, built to a face on both inner and outer sides with rubble packed between. It is a modest survival, but enough to anchor the imagination to something real rather than merely theoretical.