What once stood on a gentle rise in pastureland was a cashel, the Irish term for a stone-built ringfort, roughly 39 metres in diameter and defined by a drystone wall. Drystone construction uses no mortar, relying instead on the careful placement of stone against stone, and walls built this way can endure for centuries. This one did not, or at least not above ground. By the time anyone thought to record it formally, the wall had already collapsed, and today no visible surface traces survive at all.

When McCaffrey catalogued the site in 1952, there was still enough information to sketch its outline. The cashel enclosed an interior that contained a souterrain, an underground passage or chamber typically associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, used variously for storage, refuge, or both. Just outside the eastern edge of the enclosure wall sat a rectangular house site, suggesting the kind of small agricultural settlement that was common across early medieval Ireland, where a defended enclosure, outbuildings, and underground storage all formed part of the same domestic complex. Approximately 60 metres to the north, a separate round house completed the picture of what had been a modest but recognisably organised landscape of occupation.

What is left now is the rise itself, the same slight elevation above the surrounding pasture that would have made the site practical to begin with, offering drainage and a measure of visibility. The archaeology is below the surface or gone entirely, but the logic of the place, why someone chose that particular slope in that particular field, remains legible if you know what you are looking for.