The pasture here shows nothing, no earthwork, no raised ring, no depression to suggest that something once stood or was enclosed. Yet the ground was considered significant enough, at some point in the past, to warrant a name and a boundary.

The earliest documentary trace comes from the 1835 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, where the site is marked in gothic lettering as a "Fort", the convention cartographers used to indicate a ringfort or similar enclosure of presumed antiquity. Ringforts, known in Irish as raths or lios, were typically circular earthen or stone enclosures used as farmsteads during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries. This one was recorded as roughly 25 metres in diameter, a modest but not unusual size. By the time the 1910 edition of the same map was produced, the emphasis had shifted: the area to the south and west was noted for quarrying activity, which may well account for why so little survives. Stone extracted over decades has a way of erasing the very features that once made a place legible in the landscape.