The one found at this low-lying enclosure near Glengoole dates to the reign of King Henry II, who ruled from 1154 to 1189, placing it squarely in the period of the Anglo-Norman arrival in Ireland. That a coin of his era turned up here, in the interior of what is classified as a ringfort, is quietly suggestive of continued use or occupation at a site whose origins may well predate the Normans entirely.

The enclosure itself is roughly circular, measuring about 21 metres north to south and 22 metres east to west. It sits on a level shelf of ground just above a west-north-west-facing slope, and its interior is described as dish-shaped, meaning it dips slightly inward rather than sitting flat. A ringfort, to give the term some context, is a type of enclosed farmstead common across early medieval Ireland, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. Here, the earthworks are faint but still legible: a main bank, a fosse (the ditch that once ran alongside it), and traces of an outer bank beyond that. The fosse survives best in the south-west quadrant, while the outer bank can be picked out across the south-west to north and again from the south-east around to the south-west. A field boundary that once crossed the north-east sector has since been removed, though it appears to have clipped the outer elements of the monument before it went. The result is a site that reads as a partial circuit, worn nearly flat in places but still coherent enough to trace.