It is not a fort. It is, in all likelihood, the remains of a simple hut, its circular bank of earth and stone still just about legible in the pasture, though cut through by a later field boundary and worn down to a height of roughly thirty centimetres. The original entrance has long since vanished. What remains is a ring about four metres across, which gives some sense of how modest the structure once was, barely large enough to shelter a person or two and whatever they needed to keep close.

The mismatch between local name and archaeological classification is itself quietly telling. Across Ireland, small earthworks of this kind are routinely absorbed into the category of "fort" in popular memory, a word that attaches itself to almost any circular enclosure regardless of its actual function or age. Hut sites like this one differ from a ringfort, the more substantial enclosed settlements that dot the Irish countryside, in their scale and the absence of a fosse, the defensive ditch that typically accompanies a ringfort's bank. Without a fosse and with a diameter of only 4.2 metres, this structure was almost certainly domestic in the most basic sense, a roofed shelter rather than a defended farmstead. When exactly it was built and by whom is not recorded.