What was once a cashel, a type of stone-walled ringfort built in early medieval Ireland, survives today as little more than a grass-covered outline, its drystone walls reduced to low, rounded ridges. Roughly subcircular in plan and measuring about 37.5 metres north to south and 35 metres east to west, it is the kind of site that rewards a second look rather than a first glance.

At the north-east of the enclosure, a later animal shelter has been built directly into the ancient wall, which is a common enough fate for such structures on the Aran Islands, where good stone was never wasted and practical need has always outranked archaeological sentiment. A possible original entrance survives on the eastern side. Within the interior, a subcircular stone hut still stands, or at least its outline does, a secondary structure that would have provided shelter for people or animals within the protected space of the enclosure. Tim Robinson, whose meticulous mapping of the Aran Islands in 1980 documented the site, recorded a landscape where early medieval remains and working farmland have long occupied the same ground without ceremony.