It measures roughly 37 metres on its north-east to south-west axis and 34 metres across the other way, dimensions consistent with a ringfort, the type of circular earthwork enclosure used as a farmstead or dwelling during the early medieval period in Ireland. Thousands of ringforts survive across the Irish countryside, but this one presents a rather different situation: by the time anyone came to look for it properly, it was already gone.

When archaeologists visited the site in May 1986, they found no visible surface trace whatsoever. The landowner explained why. Around 1960, the area had been quarried out, lowering the ground level by several metres and removing whatever earthworks had once defined the enclosure. A house was subsequently built on the site. The classification in the record remains cautious, listed only as "possibly a ringfort", because without any surviving physical evidence, certainty is out of reach. What the maps recorded, and what the quarrying erased, may never be confirmed one way or the other.