The casualness of that intrusion tells you something about how thoroughly this cashel has been absorbed into the working landscape around it.

A cashel is a ringfort built from stone rather than earthen banks, the dry-stone equivalent of the more familiar raised raths found elsewhere in Ireland. This one measures roughly 34.8 metres in diameter, which would once have made it a reasonably substantial enclosure, likely the fortified farmstead of a local family of some standing during the Early Medieval period. Today the defining wall is heavily overgrown and survives in any legible form only along the eastern arc. To the southwest, where the later field wall does its damage, almost nothing of the original enclosing element remains. Recorded by McCaffrey in 1952, the site had already been in poor condition for some time by then. What keeps it from being simply a footnote is the presence of a souterrain in the eastern half of the interior. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage, typically associated with ringforts, and thought to have served for storage, refuge, or both. The fact that it survives at all, beneath ground that has been farmed and sub-divided above it, gives the site a layer of depth that its surface remains no longer suggest.