The Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, produced during the nineteenth century through a meticulous ground-level survey of Ireland, recorded here a circular enclosure roughly forty metres in diameter. Circular enclosures of this kind are typically the remains of a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built from the early medieval period onwards, usually defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches surrounding a domestic interior. Today, nothing of it can be seen on the ground.

What makes the site quietly interesting is precisely that gap between the cartographic record and the physical reality. The name of the hill itself hints at a longer memory of habitation in the area, and the enclosure sat on a slope looking out over Lough Pollalahy, a position consistent with the practical logic of early settlement, where visibility, drainage, and proximity to water all played a role in choosing where to build. Whether the earthworks were already reduced to near-invisibility when the Ordnance Survey recorded them, or whether subsequent agricultural activity or land improvement erased what once remained, is not known. The site is catalogued in Paul Gosling's Archaeological Inventory of County Galway, published in 1993, which documented hundreds of such features across west Galway, many of them in similarly precarious states of survival.