A cashel is a type of ringfort built from stone rather than earth, typically a roughly circular enclosure walled in drystone masonry, and this one was a substantial example, roughly 40 metres across, its perimeter formed of large stones. Today there is nothing to see. The site has been cleared entirely, leaving only the cartographic ghost.

What happened to it is not mysterious, exactly. In 1832 the stones were removed, a date that places the demolition squarely within a period when early medieval enclosures across Ireland were routinely dismantled for building material or simply to clear agricultural land. When the workers broke the site apart, they reportedly found large bones within the enclosure. The cashel also contained a souterrain, an underground passage or chamber typically cut into the earth and lined with stone, which in early medieval Ireland served purposes ranging from storage to refuge. Whether the bones came from the souterrain itself or from elsewhere within the enclosure is not recorded. The detail was preserved in the Ordnance Survey Name Books, the field notebooks compiled during the first major mapping of Ireland in the 1830s, and was later incorporated into the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey published by J. Cuppage in 1986.