What was once a cashel, an early medieval stone-walled ringfort, has been reduced over the centuries to a low, spread rubble of drystone, roughly 33 metres east to west and around 25 metres north to south. At some point after it fell into disuse, a field wall was built directly over part of the southern arc of the old enclosure, using or displacing its stones without ceremony. The result is a place where two different eras of land management have become physically entangled.

Cashels of this kind were typically the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, their drystone walls serving both as a boundary marker and a degree of protection for the household within. This one, recorded by McCaffrey in 1952, retains a souterrain in its interior, an underground stone-built passage or chamber that would originally have served as a place of refuge or cold storage. The souterrain survives even where the enclosing wall above ground has largely given way, which is often the case; underground structures tend to outlast the surface architecture that once gave them context.