A ringfort, broadly speaking, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank or wall, used during the early medieval period in Ireland as a farmstead or place of habitation. This one was recorded on the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a subcircular enclosure measuring approximately 43 metres east to west and 40 metres north to south, a modest but respectable size. Today, no visible surface trace survives.

What the map captured, the landscape has since absorbed. At some point after that 1838 survey, a field wall running roughly north-north-east to south-south-west was built directly through the enclosure, cutting across its north-western and western edges. That single act of agricultural reorganisation was enough to disrupt what remained of the enclosing element, and the surrounding pasture has done the rest. The site now belongs to a category of place that is archaeologically real but physically invisible, known only because a surveyor once drew a curved line on a sheet of paper.