A cashel is essentially a ringfort built in stone rather than earth and timber, a form of enclosed settlement used throughout early medieval Ireland, and this one measures just under thirty metres across. What makes it quietly odd is not its size or setting but what has happened inside it over time: a grass-covered curvilinear bank meanders down the sloping interior from north to south, then splits into two branches near the southern perimeter. This later feature appears to be an old field-wall, inserted into the enclosure after it had ceased to function as a settlement, turning the interior of a former dwelling space into a practical division of ground.

The cashel's stone wall, roughly three metres wide, can still be traced all the way around the circuit. The outer face survives to between 0.6 and 1.5 metres in height externally, though the inner face and the lower portions of the outer wall, particularly on the eastern and south-western sides, are buried beneath stone spill, the collapsed and scattered rubble that accumulates as a wall slowly deteriorates. That spill spreads to between six and seven metres in total width in places, suggesting the wall was once considerably more substantial. A section of the outer face on the western to eastern arc appears to have been rebuilt at some point, hinting at repair or reuse long after the original occupation ended. The site was recorded on the Ordnance Survey twenty-five inch map of 1897 and hachured on the six-inch edition of 1920, though it was classified only as an Enclosure when it entered the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996, a designation that rather undersells what is a legible and structurally informative example of early stone enclosure building in the Clare landscape.