This example sat on a steep north-facing slope, an orientation that would have offered little in the way of sunshine or shelter, and yet someone chose to build here deliberately, cutting a ditch into the hillside and raising an earth and stone bank to define a roughly circular enclosure about fifty metres across. Ringforts, which were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically functioned as enclosed farmsteads, and this one appears to have been no different, though its siting raises questions that the archaeology can only partially answer.

The site came to light not through dedicated survey but as a consequence of road construction. Between 2000 and 2002, ahead of work on the South-Eastern Motorway, the M50, archaeological excavations were carried out on the ringfort and an associated field system, with findings later published by Seaver in 2004. The ditch itself was relatively modest, around 1.7 metres wide and 0.9 metres deep, but what it contained was revealing. Excavators recovered considerable quantities of butchered animal bone, including sheep, pig, horse, goat, and dog, pointing to a settlement engaged in mixed farming and possibly craft activity. Among the finds were bone trial pieces, which are small offcuts of bone used to practise decorative incision before carving a finished object, as well as a stone pounder, quantities of slag suggesting metalworking, and part of a ring pin of the type commonly used to fasten cloaks in early medieval Ireland. There was also evidence that the inner face of the bank had once been lined with a timber revetment, a wooden facing used to hold the earthwork in place and give it a more finished, stable interior edge.

The ringfort no longer survives in any visible form above ground, having been recorded and excavated in advance of road development. For those interested in the broader landscape of early medieval settlement in south County Dublin, the published report by Seaver, referenced in the excavation record compiled by Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy, remains the most accessible route into the site's detail. The M50 now runs through the area, and the physical remains are gone, but the finds and their context preserve a reasonably clear picture of ordinary rural life on an awkward, north-facing hillside sometime in the early medieval period.