A cashel is a ringfort built from stone rather than earthen banks, a construction method well suited to the rocky ground of County Clare where loose limestone lies close to the surface. This one is subcircular in plan, roughly 28 metres in diameter, its defining walls now so thoroughly grassed over that they read more as gentle undulations in the field than as deliberate architecture.

The site sits within an existing field system, which suggests it was absorbed into the agricultural landscape rather than cleared from it, its boundaries perhaps convenient enough to reuse over the centuries. It was noted by Conn Herriott and is visible on Digital Globe satellite imagery from the 2011 to 2013 period, which is itself a telling detail: aerial and satellite observation has become one of the more reliable ways to recover sites like this one, where surface features have become too subtle for casual ground-level inspection. Cashels of this kind are generally associated with early medieval Ireland, roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries, when enclosed farmsteads were the dominant form of rural settlement across the country. Thousands were built; many survive in varying states of legibility.