It appears on the first Ordnance Survey map of the area, dated 1838, as a distinct enclosed feature with a surrounding bank. Visit today and you would find nothing to mark the spot: no earthwork, no ridge in the grass, no stone. Whatever was once visible has been absorbed entirely into the working farmland around it.

The site is tentatively identified as a ringfort, the most common monument type surviving from early medieval Ireland, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries. Ringforts, known also as raths, were typically enclosed farmsteads, their circular banks and ditches defining a domestic space for a single family and their animals. They occur in their thousands across Ireland, and yet many, like this one, have been levelled so thoroughly by ploughing or land improvement that their existence is known only because an earlier cartographer happened to record them. The 1838 Ordnance Survey, produced with considerable precision during the first systematic mapping of Ireland, caught this one before it disappeared from the surface of the ground entirely. Whether it was genuinely a ringfort or some other form of enclosure entirely remains unresolved.