Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, are roughly circular enclosures defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches; they served as enclosed farmsteads during the early medieval period, and thousands of them survive across Ireland in various states of repair. This one, measuring approximately 37 metres across from east to west, retains its bank along part of its circuit, from the east-northeast around to the north-northwest, along with a break in the bank to the south-southwest that may once have served as an entrance. The rest is gone.

Documented sources show the site was already being damaged in the early twentieth century. Researchers noted its condition in 1904 and again in 1918, and comparing those two accounts suggests the destruction was ongoing across that period. The final blow to the northern arc of the bank came not from neglect but from active agricultural improvement: the ground upslope from the fort was levelled to create a silage slab, and the spoil from that work was pushed downhill, burying and obliterating the bank from the north-northwest around to the east-northeast. What the early twentieth century began, mid-to-late twentieth century farming appears to have finished.

What remains sits in pasture and is modest enough that a visitor walking the field might not immediately read it as archaeology at all. The surviving bank, less than a metre high, curves through the grass in an arc that only makes sense once you know what to look for, an interrupted circle on a gentle slope, with the land behind it telling its own story of how quickly a feature that endured a thousand years can disappear in a generation.