No walls, no earthworks, nothing visible to the naked eye at ground level; the evidence comes entirely from the air. A curvilinear cropmark, running roughly south to north-west, traces the arc of what may once have been a fosse, the defensive ditch that would have ringed a circular enclosure of around thirty metres across. Cropmarks appear when buried features such as ditches or foundations affect how grass or grain grows above them, producing subtle differences in colour and height that only become legible from altitude.

The mark was captured in an aerial photograph taken in July 1989 as part of a systematic survey, and it sits on the western side of a field boundary. The enclosure, if that is what it is, would have been modest in scale. What gives the site a quiet contextual interest is its immediate neighbourhood: another ringfort lies approximately a hundred and fifty metres to the north-west, and a possible second ringfort sits around a hundred and twenty metres to the south-east. Ringforts, the most common archaeological monument type in Ireland, were typically enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries. Finding two or three such sites in close proximity is not unusual in fertile lowland Cork, where settlement was dense and the land productive, but it does suggest this corner of the Blackwater valley was well occupied for a considerable stretch of time.