The earthwork once occupied the summit of the rise, an oval enclosure measuring roughly 55 metres by 40 metres, and it was distinct enough to be plotted on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map. Today, a field wall cuts across where the southern arc of the enclosure would have stood, and no surface trace remains whatsoever. A ringfort, typically a circular or near-circular raised earthen bank enclosing a farmstead of the early medieval period, was one of the most common settlement forms in Ireland between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. That this one has vanished entirely from the ground, surviving only in cartographic memory and in the measurements of earlier recorders, is what makes the site quietly arresting.

By around 1975, a local account recorded by someone named Knight described the site as a Danish fort, a label that reflects a widespread folk tradition rather than any archaeological evidence. The term was commonly applied across Ireland to ancient earthworks of all kinds, the assumption being that anything unexplained must have been built by Viking invaders. In reality, the vast majority of such enclosures are of Irish origin, constructed and inhabited long before the Norse arrived. Within the interior of this particular site there was also a stone structure, recorded separately but left unclassified, which suggests something additional once stood inside the enclosure, though its nature and date were never firmly established. Whether it was a building, a cairn, or something else entirely, it has left no more trace than the ringfort that surrounded it.