Known as a clearance cairn, it is essentially a heap of rocks gathered from the interior over the centuries, probably by farmers working the land long after the original inhabitants had gone. It sits at the middle of a circular enclosure roughly 25 metres across, and the fact that its presence is so unremarkable, so practical, is part of what makes the site interesting. Someone, at some point, was simply tidying a field.

A cashel is a type of ringfort built from stone rather than earthen banks, and this example in Co. Clare survives in reasonable condition beneath a cover of grass, scrub, and hazel growth. The surrounding wall, now spread to between three and a half and nearly five metres wide, retains something of its original profile, particularly along the eastern side where the internal face rises to about 1.3 metres and the external face reaches between 1.4 and 1.6 metres. At the north, enough of the original stonework survives to suggest the wall was once around 1.6 metres wide at its base. There is an entrance gap on the eastern side, but it is not original, meaning the true threshold was elsewhere, or has simply been lost. What makes the location slightly unusual is that another cashel of similar type lies roughly 50 metres to the west-southwest, the two structures sitting in close proximity on this patch of Clare pasture, a pairing that raises questions about shared use, family groupings, or settlement patterns that the landscape alone cannot answer.