The ringfort that once occupied this rise, a type of enclosed farmstead common across early medieval Ireland, has been levelled entirely, leaving no visible trace for a visitor standing in the field today. Yet the site still carries a record of its former shape, even if that record now exists only in older documentation rather than in the ground itself.

When the Office of Public Works recorded the monument in 1966, there was still something to describe. At that time, a roughly circular though irregularly shaped area remained defined by a low, tree-lined bank with internal stone facing, the kind of enclosing boundary characteristic of a ringfort. Within that interior, surveyors noted vague traces of small buildings, interpreted at the time as farm buildings, along with extensive remains of old field-banks and tillage ridges spreading outward across the surrounding land. Those interior traces are now considered potentially to represent a hut site of uncertain antiquity, meaning the structures could belong to almost any period, their origins unresolved. The relationship between the hut site and the ringfort enclosure that surrounded it remains similarly open, a layering of occupation that the landscape no longer makes legible from the outside.