A cashel is a stone-walled ringfort, a type of enclosed settlement associated broadly with the early medieval period in Ireland, when farming families built circular enclosures around their homesteads for protection and to define their landholdings. This one measures some 52 metres in diameter, which places it at the larger end of the scale, yet it is today considered poorly preserved.

What makes the site quietly telling is not simply the passage of time but the visible layering of human decisions made over centuries. Field walls, the kind thrown up by farmers to divide and manage land, have been driven straight through the monument from multiple directions, cutting across it from the east-north-east to the west, and from the south-east to the south-west. A further wall overlies the original enclosing element along a sweep from the north-west through east to south-east. The old boundary of the cashel has, in effect, been cannibalised. Stone that once described an ancient enclosure was reused or simply built over, the needs of later agricultural life making little distinction between ancient monument and convenient quarry. The site was documented by McCaffrey in 1952.