The cattle that drink there have also done their work on the walls, levelling sections of the stone enclosure that would once have defined a household's boundary with some authority.

This particular site is classed as a cashel, the term used in Irish archaeology for a ringfort whose enclosing boundary is built from stone rather than earthen banks. A univallate cashel, as this one is, has a single such wall rather than the multiple concentric rings found at more elaborate sites. The enclosure here is roughly circular, measuring nineteen metres across in both directions, and the wall still stands to 1.2 metres above the interior ground level and a more substantial two metres above the surrounding fields. That difference in height between inside and outside reflects the way the interior sits at a noticeably higher level than the land around it, sloping gently southward. Cashels of this kind are generally associated with early medieval settlement, serving as farmstead enclosures for single family groups, and North Kerry has a considerable concentration of them.