What was once a defined, enclosed space, most likely a ringfort or similar early settlement boundary, has been reduced over centuries to a short stretch of earthen bank along its southern side, heavily overgrown and easily overlooked. A ringfort, to give the broader term some context, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank or stone wall, used throughout early medieval Ireland as a farmstead or defended homestead. Here, little enough survives to confirm the original form with certainty.

The site was recorded in a 1994 archaeological survey of Ballinrobe and the surrounding district, which took in the broader landscapes of Lough Mask and Lough Carra. That survey catalogued the enclosure as entry number 430, noting that a stone field fence cuts across the remaining bank on both its eastern and western ends, a detail that quietly illustrates how working agricultural land has, over generations, incorporated and slowly dismantled earlier structures. The bank itself sits atop the ridge, which may reflect deliberate positioning, whether for visibility, drainage, or defence, though the surviving evidence is too fragmentary to say anything definite about the original intent.