The ground barely rises; the bank that once defined it has been levelled flat. Only a slight, uneven swelling in the turf, running from south through to north-north-east, and a faint depression on the south-east side hint that something deliberate was once built here. Even the grass gives something away, growing differently along the ghost of a bank where soil compaction and buried stonework alter what the surface will support.

The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded this as a hachured circular enclosure, and the same feature appeared again on editions from 1905 and 1936, each time marked as a raised circular area of roughly twenty metres in diameter. By the time fieldwork was carried out more recently, the structure had been levelled entirely. What the maps preserved was a ringfort in the process of disappearing. A ringfort, in Irish archaeology, is typically a circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and external ditch, the fosse, and was most commonly used as a farmstead during the early medieval period. Here the faint depression on the south-east to south arc is the only surviving evidence for that outer ditch. The interior measures 19.6 metres east to west and 17.5 metres north to south, placing it at the smaller end of the known range for this type of monument.