A cashel is a ringfort built from stone rather than earthen banks, and this particular example is nearly square, measuring 34 metres north to south and 33 metres east to west. That rectilinear form sets it apart from the majority of its counterparts across the Irish landscape, and it sits in a slight hollow on high elevated pasture, part of a multi-period field system whose layers of use stretch back across centuries.

The structure has had a complicated life. Its defining wall, externally faced and ranging from 0.4 to 0.6 metres wide, survives to heights anywhere between 0.2 and 6 metres, which tells its own story of partial collapse and partial persistence. Much of the perimeter has been rebuilt at some later point, making it difficult to read as a purely early medieval monument. More intriguing is the small hut site attached to the exterior near the western end of the northern wall, constructed with a lintelled roof, where flat stones span the opening rather than relying on an arch. Field walls radiate outward from each corner of the cashel, some of which may themselves be ancient, weaving the structure into a broader agricultural landscape that was clearly in use across multiple periods. The site was already visible on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1916, and researchers have since placed it seventh on a list of 66 rectilinear cashels identified across the Burren by Bowmer in 2019, a catalogue that underlines just how distinctive this rectangular tradition is within the wider region.