Gothic lettering on those early OS maps was the cartographers' convention for ancient or prehistoric features, so the designation carried weight. Today, however, almost nothing survives to justify it.

The site occupies a slight natural prominence on an east-west ridge, with the Mountain Water River looping around it on three sides, the stream running somewhere between 100 and 200 metres to the north-west, south-west, and south-east. That kind of setting, a raised position partly enclosed by water, is typical of early Irish ringforts, which were usually circular earthen enclosures used as farmsteads from roughly the sixth to the twelfth centuries. But the physical evidence here has all but vanished. What remains is a faint curve in a field bank, representing perhaps 20 metres of the monument's western arc, and a more recent field bank cutting straight across what would have been the interior. Whether the original earthwork was levelled gradually by agriculture or was never especially substantial to begin with is impossible now to say. The landscape itself offers the only hint that something was once here, the ridge and the river bend together suggesting why someone might have chosen the spot in the first place.