What was once a cashel, a type of ringfort built entirely from stone rather than earthen banks, now survives as little more than a grass-covered spread of rubble, its original facing stones long since robbed out or collapsed into the surrounding ground. At sixteen metres across in both directions, it was never a large enclosure, but its proportions suggest a single household or small farmstead, the kind of defended settlement that was common across Ireland from the early medieval period onward.

The remains are uneven in their survival. Along the eastern arc, the stone spread reaches nearly two metres wide and stands to about eighty centimetres; the northern section is considerably wider, spreading to over five metres, though it sits no higher. The southern perimeter has fared worst of all. A later east-west masonry wall has been laid directly across it, and beyond that the old boundary dissolves into a low grass-covered scarp barely sixty centimetres tall. Attached to this southern stretch is a separate house-site, a distinct but associated feature that hints at continued, perhaps post-medieval, occupation pressing up against the older structure. The rock outcrop visible within the interior is a reminder that whoever chose this spot was working with the natural limestone of the Clare landscape rather than quarrying fresh material for the purpose.