The name belongs to a category of Irish vernacular place-memory that archaeologists have long found useful, because it often marks ground where something genuinely ancient survives, even when the visible evidence is faint.

What can still be traced on the ground is a roughly circular area about eighteen metres across, its eastern and western edges defined by eroded banks that have sunk low over time. To the north and south, curved field-fences follow what may be the original line of the enclosure, absorbed into the working landscape rather than swept away by it. Enclosures of this type, sometimes called ringforts, were the commonplace domestic settlements of early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular area enclosed by an earthen bank and ditch, within which a family would have kept their home and livestock. This one is modest in diameter and its banks are badly weathered, but the persistence of the curving boundaries suggests the enclosure's geometry has quietly shaped the land use around it for centuries, even as its original purpose was forgotten.