In the undulating mixed farmland of Moyveela in County Galway, a cashel, the Irish term for a stone-built ringfort enclosed by a dry-stone wall rather than an earthen bank, was once noted as occupying a field that now offers almost nothing to the eye.

When McCaffrey catalogued the site in 1952, it was already in a poor state, described as a ruinous stone fort defined by a wall of what he called "rocky spill", loose displaced stonework that had long since lost any coherent structural form. By the time fieldworkers revisited in December 1982, even that trace had effectively gone. The inspection found only some slight irregularities in the ground towards the southern end of the field, the kind of subtle humps and hollows that suggest something was once there without quite committing to a shape. No visible surface trace survived beyond that.