The ground offers nothing to the eye. No bank, no ditch, no upstanding stonework. Whatever enclosure once occupied this hillside has been absorbed entirely into the agricultural landscape around it.

Ringforts, roughly circular enclosures defined by earthen banks or stone walls, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, used as farmsteads from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. This one was substantial enough to appear on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, where it was recorded as a small oval enclosure. By the time the third edition was produced in 1930, the cartographers described it differently, as a small circular mound approximately twenty metres in diameter, suggesting that even within the span of the survey's history the site was already losing definition, collapsing inward rather than presenting a legible boundary. At some point after that, whatever remained above ground disappeared altogether. The site is also associated with a cashel, the Irish term for a stone-walled ringfort, catalogued under the reference GA043-016001, which hints that this corner of North Galway was once a more densely occupied landscape than it appears today.