That detail alone is enough to give a visitor pause. Most ringforts and enclosures of the Irish countryside, however ruined, retain at least a recognisable gap in their banks where a person or animal might once have passed through. This one, as far as can be determined, offers no such clue.

Recorded by Colm Chambers, the structure is modest in scale but notably well preserved in its proportions. Internally it measures five metres across, with an overall external diameter of twelve metres, meaning the bank itself accounts for much of the structure's footprint. That bank, built from stone and earth, reaches a maximum height of 1.7 metres on its north-eastern side. More unusually, the floor of the enclosed space sits at least fifty centimetres above the surrounding ground level, a detail that sets it apart from the typical ringfort, where the interior tends to be level or even slightly sunken relative to the bank. A fosse, the term for a ditch dug around the outer edge of an enclosure as an additional boundary or defensive measure, may once have existed here too, though only possible traces remain. What the enclosure was built for, and by whom, the evidence does not yet say.