It is easy to overlook, and that is part of what makes it worth knowing about. This is a cashel, the stone equivalent of the more familiar earthen ringfort, built by enclosing a circular area with a dry-laid stone wall rather than an earthen bank and ditch. Thousands of these structures survive across Ireland, most of them dating from roughly the sixth to the twelfth centuries, and nearly all of them were once the defended homesteads of farming families.

This particular example measures around 32 metres in diameter and is defined by the remains of a drystone wall, though what survives today is poorly preserved. The site was recorded by McCaffrey in 1952, and while the note is spare, the detail it preserves is enough to fix the place in the archaeological record. The surrounding pastureland is level, which would have made the original wall all the more visible in its time, a deliberate statement of enclosure on an open landscape.