The pit now occupies the footprint of a roughly 27-metre-wide earthwork, a diameter typical of the ringforts that dot the Irish countryside, those enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, generally dating from around 500 to 1200 AD, where a family and their livestock would have sheltered within a raised bank and perhaps a timber palisade.

According to the landowner, the enclosure was defined by a bank of earth and stone, with evidence that the outer face had been reinforced with drystone walling, a detail that suggests some care in its original construction. Drystone wall-facing on a ringfort bank is not unusual but it does indicate that whoever built here wanted something more durable than a simple earthen mound. The site sits on a low rise in gently undulating ground, the kind of position that would have offered modest but useful views across the surrounding farmland. What survives today is less dramatic: a quantity of upcast bank material, the spoil thrown aside when the silage pit was cut, remains visible to the north of the pit, a faint and unassuming trace of whatever once stood here.