No earthwork, no raised bank, no hollow hints at what lies beneath. The only evidence that anything was ever here comes from an early Ordnance Survey map, which recorded a circular enclosure roughly fifty metres in diameter, and from the likelihood that a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage typically used for storage or refuge, ran beneath or beside it.

The site was catalogued as a probable ringfort, the kind of enclosed farmstead that tens of thousands of early medieval Irish families built between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. Most ringforts survive at least as earthen raths or slight depressions, but this one has vanished from the surface completely, absorbed into the surrounding grassland. The first edition of the six-inch Ordnance Survey map, produced in Ireland during the 1830s and 1840s, captured it when enough remained to trace its outline. By the time modern fieldwork was carried out, that outline had gone. The associated souterrain, cross-referenced in the county inventory, left no visible trace either, though its probable existence suggests a settlement of some substance once occupied this slope, since souterrains required considerable effort to construct and were not features of minor or temporary occupation.