A cashel is a ringfort built from stone rather than earth, and this one was substantial enough to be recorded on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1841 to 1842 as a circular enclosure, with something even more intriguing noted inside: a cave. That single word, pencilled into the interior on a nineteenth-century map, raises questions that the surviving remains can no longer answer.

By the time the 1916 edition of the map was produced, the site had already begun to disappear. Fieldbanks had been cut across the enclosure, and the eastern section was no longer marked at all, suggesting it had been absorbed or demolished by then. Today the cashel is almost entirely levelled. What remains is a short arc of the original stone bank running from the south to the west, a remnant just four metres wide, rising roughly sixty centimetres above the interior floor and a more substantial one and a half metres above the ground outside. That difference in levels is itself telling: the raised interior, sitting higher than the surrounding land, is a characteristic feature of cashels, where material accumulated over generations of occupation. The cave noted on the earlier map may have been a souterrain, an underground passage or chamber of dry-stone construction commonly found within Irish ringforts, used variously for storage, refuge, or both. Whether any trace of it survives beneath the surface is unknown.