Cup marks are among the oldest forms of human mark-making found in Ireland, their precise purpose still debated, and their presence here beside a later enclosure suggests the site may have carried significance across more than one period of use.

The ringfort, known in Irish as a rath, is a type of enclosed farmstead typical of early medieval Ireland, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Thousands survive across the country in varying states of preservation. This one sits on a south-facing slope in pasture, its roughly circular interior measuring approximately 27 metres northeast to southwest and 23 metres southeast to northwest. An earthen bank, standing to about 1.3 metres in height, runs from the west around to the southeast, where the ground drops away as a scarp rather than a built bank. There is a gap in the bank to the southeast, about 2.6 metres wide, which likely marks the original entrance. Against the outer face of the bank, particularly toward the south, a considerable amount of stone has been deposited over the years, large boulders and field clearance material piled up as the surrounding land was worked and managed. The cup-marked boulder sits among this accumulation to the southeast. The interior itself slopes gently southward, and the field fences that once subdivided the surrounding area have since been removed, leaving the earthwork relatively exposed within the pasture landscape.