The circular enclosure was visible on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map, and local memory has kept alive the knowledge that a rath, an earthen ringfort of the early medieval period typically used as a farmstead enclosure, once occupied the ground. The structure has otherwise left no visible trace above the surface.

The site is most likely the one recorded in the Ordnance Survey Name Books under the title Gurtatuggart Fort, given in Irish as Gort an tSagairt, meaning the priest's field or garden. It was described there by a recorder named Prior as an earthen fort of about one chain in diameter, a chain being a surveying unit of roughly twenty metres, which places this in the smaller range of ringfort sizes. The Irish place-name suggests a possible ecclesiastical association, though whether that reflects ownership, proximity to church land, or simply a local naming tradition is not recorded.