A cashel is simply a ringfort built from stone rather than earth, a circular enclosure whose drystone walls once marked out a defended farmstead, likely of early medieval date. This one, roughly twenty-five metres across, has been reduced in most places to little more than a scatter of stones tracing a curve in the ground.

What survives best runs from the western arc around to the north, where the inner face of the original wall has been incorporated into, or overwritten by, a later modern wall. That kind of quiet repurposing is common across the Irish landscape, where farmers found ready-cut stone in ancient structures and made practical use of it without much ceremony. More unusual here is a rectangular house, eight metres long and five metres wide, built hard up against the cashel wall on the northern side. Whether it was constructed by someone who understood what the enclosing wall was, or simply by someone who found a convenient boundary to build against, is not recorded. The detail gives the site an odd layered quality, two very different kinds of occupation pressed together on the same small summit.