It is almost nothing, and yet it is the remnant of something that was once a considerable presence: a cashel roughly 35 metres in diameter, its drystone perimeter wall enclosing a space about as wide as a modest farmyard.

A cashel is a type of early Irish ringfort defined by a stone rather than earthen boundary, and in their complete form these enclosures were substantial, functional structures, most likely farmsteads of the early medieval period. This particular example was catalogued by McCaffrey in 1952, who recorded it as a circular stone fort with a drystone wall defining its circumference. By the time it was surveyed more recently, only the western arc of that wall remained legible in the ground, the rest buried or dispersed beneath a cover of furze. The site sits on flat terrain, which made it easier to build and easier, over centuries, to gradually dismantle for other uses or simply to lose to encroaching vegetation.