It is the kind of place that once drew the attention of cartographers and field surveyors, and has since been quietly reclaiming its own obscurity.

The enclosure appears on the 1834 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, where it is marked as a 'fort' in the distinctive gothic lettering the OS reserved for antiquities. That label points to its likely origin as a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built across Ireland roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. When surveyors examined the site in 1968, they recorded a subcircular enclosure measuring approximately 42 metres north to south and 35 metres east to west, its boundary defined by a fosse, that is, a dug ditch, which survived most clearly along the north-east and north-north-east to east-north-east arc. There the ditch still had some depth and definition, with a top width of around three metres and an internal depth of nearly one and a half metres. Towards the south-south-west, however, the feature had been reduced to little more than a low scarp in the ground. No entrance feature was identified at any point around the perimeter, which is not uncommon where erosion or later agricultural activity has obscured the original gap.

Since that 1968 survey, the site has become completely overgrown with furze, the spiny yellow-flowered shrub that colonises neglected ground across Ireland with considerable enthusiasm. What was already a subtle earthwork has become, in practical terms, almost inaccessible, and its form is now largely a matter of historical record rather than visible archaeology.