The enclosure measures roughly 28 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, which puts it at a modest but respectable size for a cashel, the term used for a ringfort built from stone rather than earthen banks and ditches. Cashels were typically farmsteads of the early medieval period, perhaps the fifth to twelfth centuries, where a family and their livestock sheltered within a defensive enclosure. What makes this one quietly unsettling is not the ruin itself but what is absent from it.

Until the 1970s, the interior of the cashel contained three round stone foundations, the kind of low circular walls that would once have supported timber or thatched structures, domestic buildings of the people who lived here. According to local information, all three were removed during that decade. What stands in their place now is a planting of conifers and, at the centre of the enclosure, a mound of stones, possibly the debris of those demolished foundations or an older feature entirely. The site also sits approximately 45 metres east of a standing stone, a proximity that is unlikely to be coincidental, since standing stones and enclosed settlements are often found in loose association across the Irish landscape, though the precise relationship between any given pair is rarely easy to determine. Together they suggest a stretch of ground that was deliberately shaped and used over a long period.