Its walls have long since sunk to little more than a low stone foundation, rising only about thirty centimetres above the ground and spreading some two metres in width, but the outline is still readable: an oval of roughly forty-three metres north to south and forty-one metres east to west, with commanding views in every direction.

This is a cashel, the term used for a ringfort built from stone rather than earthen banks, a form of enclosed settlement common across Ireland during the early medieval period, broadly spanning the fifth to twelfth centuries. Cashels served as farmsteads and places of security for families of some local standing, and their elevated positions were rarely accidental. What survives here is not just the outer enclosure wall but evidence of a more complex interior arrangement. A stone wall subdivides the south-western sector, abutting the main cashel wall at both its western and southern ends, and two further stone fences cut across the interior of the site. This kind of internal division is a useful reminder that these enclosures were working spaces rather than purely defensive ones, with different areas likely set aside for livestock, storage, or domestic use. The site was recorded by D. Lavelle in a 1994 archaeological survey of the Ballinrobe district, which also took in the shores of Lough Mask and Lough Carra, a region with a notably dense concentration of early historic monuments.