To a passing eye it reads as nothing in particular, just a gentle undulation in a south-east-facing slope, bounded on the north-east by a fence and a road. The bank that once defined its edge has been levelled, leaving the shape itself as the only real evidence that something deliberate was once built here.

Ringforts, known also as raths or lios, were enclosed farmsteads typical of early medieval Ireland, usually dating from roughly the sixth to the twelfth century. They were built by farming families as circular enclosures of earthen banks and ditches, sometimes reinforced with stone, enclosing a domestic space within. This one at Skehanagh was recorded on the Ordnance Survey map of 1838 as a circular enclosure, which means that even then, nearly two centuries ago, the structure was already sufficiently worn that surveyors could note its outline without being entirely certain of its nature. The qualification that it is "possibly" a ringfort reflects that ambiguity honestly: the shape fits, the setting fits, but the defining earthworks are gone.