Labelled "Fort" on the Fair Plan, the historical mapping document used to record land divisions in nineteenth-century Ireland, it appears on the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a small subcircular enclosure, roughly fifteen metres across on its northwest to southeast axis. That kind of enclosure, typically a raised earthen ringfort or its levelled remains, was once common across the Irish countryside, serving as a farmstead boundary in the early medieval period. This one, however, had already begun its quiet disappearance long before anyone thought to look closely.

By the time an inspection was carried out in July 1984, the enclosure itself had gone. What remained was a wide fosse, a ditch that would originally have run around the perimeter of the structure, curving from west to north to southeast and measuring around ten metres across. The road running northwest to southeast had clipped the site, cutting across it from west to south and removing whatever once stood in its path. A field boundary running roughly north to south had bisected what was left, splitting the fosse and making the original form of the site difficult to read. Aerial imagery from 2019 shows that this later field boundary has since been removed, which at least restores a clearer view of the surviving earthwork from above, even if the ground itself holds only a fraction of what was once there.