The northern quadrant, where the perimeter has been largely levelled or simply swallowed by vegetation, is further complicated by several active beehives that have been installed there, making any close inspection of that section quietly inadvisable.

A ringfort, or rath, is a type of enclosed farmstead, typically of early medieval Irish date, defined by one or more earthen or stone banks encircling a central living area. This one is old enough to appear on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840, and by the time the revised edition was produced in 1904 to 1905, the surrounding woodland had been given a name of its own: Fox Covert, the kind of label that suggests deliberate planting for game cover rather than natural regrowth. The fort itself survives unevenly. The southern edge retains a scarp rising to around 1.25 metres, with possible traces of an earthen and stone bank still legible beneath the undergrowth. There is also an external fosse, a defensive ditch, on the southern side, measuring about 2.6 metres wide and up to 0.8 metres deep, though dumps of disturbed earth within it raise the possibility that some of what is visible there reflects more recent ground activity rather than the original construction. Along the western arc the scarp climbs to 1.7 metres and holds its shape more convincingly, with no corresponding ditch on that side.