Known locally as Conally's Fort, this ringfort in Darrary has been reduced over centuries to little more than a subtle earthwork, roughly thirty-five metres across, rising just enough above its surroundings to catch the eye of someone already looking for it. Ringforts, which were typically enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period defined by one or more circular earthen or stone banks, were once among the most common field monuments in Ireland; thousands survive in varying states of preservation, though many, like this one, have been worn down almost to nothing by centuries of agriculture and weather.

When a County Galway survey recorded the site in 1914, the author Neary described it plainly as a "circular, earthen fort", placing it among a catalogue of similar monuments then still identifiable across the landscape. By the time later inventories caught up with the site, the description had grown no more dramatic: a slight rise, a circular form, a diameter, and a local name. That name, Conally's Fort, is the kind of detail that often survives long after the physical monument has faded, kept alive in the speech of neighbouring farms even when the earthwork itself has become all but invisible.