What remains sits at the rim of elevated ground above the Poulacarran Valley in County Clare, a stretch of rough pasture and scrub where a cashel, roughly 28 metres across, has been worn down over centuries to little more than its southern arc. A cashel is a stone-walled ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead common in early medieval Ireland, typically built to protect a household and its livestock. Here, only a scarp of earth and stone along the southern curve still gives any real sense of the original structure, running from east to southwest at roughly 1.6 metres high and 3.4 metres wide at its broadest surviving point.

The antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp recorded the site in 1898, describing it with a certain bluntness as a "coarsely built, much dilapidated irregular caher". By then it was already well known to mapmakers: it appears hachured on both the 1842 and 1920 editions of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, the conventional symbol for a raised or earthwork feature. What survives today includes scant traces of an outer wall-face traceable along the same southern arc, partly obscured by a later drystone wall built directly over the original fabric, the combined height of old and new together reaching about one metre. The site sits within a large multiperiod field system, suggesting this corner of the Burren has been continuously worked and modified across many centuries. A second cashel lies approximately 77 metres to the southeast, hinting that this was once a more densely settled landscape than the bare karst now suggests.