A rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, is a roughly circular earthen enclosure typically dating from the early medieval period, built as a farmstead and livestock enclosure, and once so common across Ireland that thousands of them survive in varying states of preservation. This one, roughly thirty metres in diameter, does not survive at all. It has been levelled completely, leaving no visible trace on the ground.

The site is recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, where it appears as a hachured circular enclosure, the standard cartographic shorthand of the period for a raised or embanked feature. By the 1905 edition of the same map it is still there, depicted this time as a hachured circular raised area of identical dimensions. Somewhere between 1905 and the present, the earthwork was removed. The land is now pasture, broken by a rock outcrop, and quarrying of that outcrop appears to have contributed to the disturbance of the area. The rath is gone, but the maps that recorded it remain, and they preserve at least the outline of what once occupied this corner of north Cork.