The ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead common across early medieval Ireland, was levelled long ago by agricultural activity, but the circular patch of ground it once occupied still betrays itself through differential crop growth, where variations in soil depth and composition cause plants above the old buried features to grow differently from the surrounding field. That ghost outline, roughly 21 metres across its north-south axis, is all that remains of what was once a substantial enclosed settlement.

The site turns up on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 recorded as an irregular rectangular enclosure, which is itself a little puzzling, since ringforts are typically circular. By 1936, when the OS mapped the area again, it appears as a hachured circular enclosure, the conventional cartographic shorthand for an earthwork of this kind. Whether the earlier surveyors were working from incomplete information, or whether the earthwork had already begun to lose its definition, is not clear. What the two maps together suggest is a site that was already in some degree of decline over that century. The slope it occupies faces south-east, overlooking tillage land, which is a reasonable position for an early medieval farming enclosure and also, incidentally, exactly the kind of well-drained agricultural ground that later ploughing tends to prioritise. A second ringfort sits roughly 130 metres to the north-east, a reminder that these enclosures often cluster in landscapes where early communities farmed adjoining territories.