This is a cashel, a type of ringfort defined by a drystone boundary wall rather than the earthen banks more commonly associated with early medieval settlement. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is its proximity to the great hillfort at Mooghaun, a massive Iron Age enclosure in south County Clare, suggesting that this corner of the landscape was in use, in one form or another, across a considerable stretch of time.

The cashel is subcircular in plan, measuring roughly 29 metres by 22 metres across, and its defining wall, though now much collapsed, still tells you something about how it was built. Originally around two metres wide, it was constructed with a dressed inner and outer stone facing enclosing a rubble core, a method that gave the wall structural stability and a reasonably imposing appearance. Today the wall survives to an internal height of about 0.7 metres, with the exterior face reaching up to two metres in places where collapse has been less severe. The overall width of the collapsed spread now runs between 3.5 and 3.7 metres. A gap of roughly 1.5 metres on the south-eastern side may represent the original entrance, the direction from which most Irish cashels were accessed. The site is documented by Condit and Grogan, writing in 2005.