A cashel is a ringfort built from stone rather than earthen banks, and they are common enough across the Dingle Peninsula. What is less common is finding a freestanding clochaun, a small dry-stone beehive hut, positioned squarely in the middle of the enclosed space, as though the entire compound were built to protect this single circular room.

The site occupies a natural pass between the hills of Knockmoylemore and Sugarloaf, roughly a hundred metres west of a ford across the Garfinny river, a location that would have made both movement and water access straightforward for whoever lived or sheltered here. The stone enclosure wall averages about 1.8 metres wide and stands to a similar height, though the north-east sector was at some point replaced with a modern wall, now partly collapsed, and an iron gate now spans the entrance gap on the east-south-east side. Inside, the clochaun measures just over five metres in diameter and its slightly corbelled walls, built without mortar by overlapping courses of stone inward until they nearly meet at the top, rise to just under two metres. The external face is stepped, sitting up from a grass-grown plinth of earth and stone. A small niche is set into the inner wall face on the south-west side at ground level, just twenty-five centimetres high and forty-five wide, the kind of recess that might have held a lamp or a small object of significance. The clochaun's original entrance faced south-east, but that section of wall has been broken away, and the rubble has accumulated into a low platform outside the gap. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, which remains a foundational reference for the archaeology of the Corca Dhuibhne area.