What makes this site quietly arresting is its form: not the familiar circular ringfort that dots the Irish countryside, but a cluster of conjoined rectangular platform forts, an arrangement unusual enough to draw the attention of excavators in the early twentieth century.

The archaeologist Seán P. Ó Ríordáin described the complex in 1936 as a sequence of these adjoining platforms, and a partial excavation of one section was carried out. The finds were modest but telling. An ornamented quern, the kind of rotary grinding stone used for processing grain, came out of the dig, along with fragments of glazed pottery. One green-glazed piece was examined by the antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp, who suggested it dated to the fourteenth century. Sections cut through the fosse, the ditch surrounding the earthwork, produced animal bones near the bottom, specifically the remains of pig, young calf, and ox. These are the quiet remnants of domestic life, the sort of detail that anchors an otherwise abstract earthwork to actual human occupation.

The earthworks do not announce themselves at ground level, particularly in wet conditions when the pasture closes in around any subtle changes in elevation. The more legible view comes from above: the site shows clearly as a series of rectangular cropmarks on Digital Globe orthoimages taken between 2011 and 2013, and remains visible on Google Earth. For anyone visiting in person, the surrounding wet pasture means the ground can be soft underfoot, and the rectangular outlines are easier to read in dry summer conditions when differential crop growth or parched grass betrays the buried ditches beneath. The site is referenced under monument number LI049-069--- in the national record, which provides the most reliable route to pinning down its exact location before setting out.