Nothing is visible there now at ground level, but successive maps and a mid-twentieth-century field observation tell a quiet story of gradual erasure.

The 1835 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map marks the spot faintly, labelling a small oval enclosure, roughly 20 metres north to south and 12 metres east to west, simply as a "fort". By the time the map was revised in 1944, the feature had been redrawn as a D-shaped hachured area, hachuring being the cartographic convention for indicating a raised or scarped landform. A field observation made in 1949 recorded a D-shaped platform somewhat larger in extent, approximately 29 metres east to west and 25 metres north to south, defined by a low scarp of around 0.8 metres in height, with a field bank cutting across its southern edge. That truncation by the field bank is itself telling: the enclosure was already being absorbed into the working agricultural landscape. The structure was probably a rath, the most common type of early medieval enclosure in Ireland, typically consisting of a roughly circular earthen bank defining a farmstead or defended homestead. That the Ordnance Survey cartographers of 1835 still called it a "fort" reflects the older local convention of applying that word to any earthwork of apparent antiquity, regardless of its precise function.

The lough sits only around 400 metres to the north-east, and the slight elevation of the site would have given whoever lived or gathered within the enclosure a view across the water. That relationship between enclosed settlement and nearby lough is a common one in the Irish midlands, where such features often cluster near water. Now, with the earthwork levelled below the threshold of visibility, the rise in the pasture holds its past without displaying it.