A small mound of earth and stones in the eastern quadrant may be the collapsed remains of a hut site, while a curving bank of earth and stone in the southern quadrant possibly marks a second. Neither feature announces itself; they are the kind of thing you could walk over without registering what they might once have been.

A ringfort, to give the general shape of it, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, used throughout early medieval Ireland as a farmstead or small settlement. Finding traces of internal structures within one is not unusual, but it is relatively rare for two possible hut sites to survive within the same enclosure in even this fragmentary form. The setting adds something to the picture: Lough Owel lies roughly 200 metres to the south-west, and Kilpatrick Well sits around 280 metres to the north-east. Water sources of both kinds, a lake and a holy well, close at hand to a small enclosed settlement, suggest a place that was once chosen with some care.