A ringfort, for those unfamiliar with the term, is a roughly circular earthwork enclosure, typically dating from the early medieval period and used as a farmstead or defended homestead. This one, on a north-facing rise in the landscape, has left no visible trace on the ground whatsoever.

What we know of it comes from the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which recorded it as an oval enclosure measuring approximately 45 metres by 35 metres. Even at the time of that survey, the site was already being compromised: a roadway cut across it at both the north-west and south-east, bisecting the enclosure in two places. That road appears to have done its work thoroughly. Subsequent field investigation found nothing remaining at the surface, no earthen bank, no ditch, no trace of the boundary that once defined this small piece of early medieval life in north Galway.