The site is almost certainly a ringfort, the kind of enclosed farmstead that was once the standard unit of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, where a family and their livestock would have lived within a bank and ditch. What makes this one quietly unusual is that it was originally one half of a pair, two circular embanked enclosures joined together, side by side.

The 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps recorded both enclosures clearly, showing this one as the eastern of the two conjoined rings, with its companion appended to its western side. By the time the 1930 edition of the same mapping series was produced, neither was marked, suggesting the features had become sufficiently degraded, absorbed into field patterns, or simply overlooked to fall off the record. What survives today measures roughly 21 metres north to south and 25.7 metres east to west. A curving scarp, the remnant of the original enclosing bank, still rises to about 1.4 metres on the southern side, though it drops to around 0.6 metres further east. At the north and north-east, the bank has been dug away entirely. A field wall running on a north to south axis has been built directly over the western edge, the very point where the two enclosures were once connected, and that boundary line has effectively erased the junction between them. A bungalow now sits immediately to the east, making the agricultural continuity of the site across twelve centuries feel all the more ordinary, and all the more strange.