Standing in the surrounding pasture, on a low rise in otherwise unremarkable farmland, there is nothing to indicate that anything of historical significance lies beneath your feet. No earthworks break the surface, no stones protrude, no depression in the grass hints at what was once recorded here. The monument, whatever its original form, has been entirely absorbed into the landscape.

What we know of it comes largely from cartography. The first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, published in 1837, marks the site as a rectangular enclosure and labels it plainly as a fort. That designation, used by the early OS surveyors, typically referred to a ringfort or similar enclosed settlement, the kind of structure that was once common across Ireland and served as a farmstead and place of security during the early medieval period. Ringforts were generally circular, so the rectangular outline recorded here is itself a point of interest, suggesting either a different tradition of construction or a monument of a different type altogether. By the time the map was made, the enclosure was likely already reduced or partially gone; by now, at ground level, it has vanished entirely.