Cashels are among the most enduring domestic monuments in the Irish landscape, constructed roughly between the sixth and tenth centuries as enclosed farmsteads for families of varying social rank. Their stone construction, practical in regions where field clearance produced an abundance of building material, has often allowed them to survive where their earthen counterparts have long since been ploughed flat or eroded away. That this one survives in Lislorkan, a small and largely unremarked townland in Clare, makes it a minor geographical curiosity in its own right.