Ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, were typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches encircling a raised interior platform. Here, the bank is gone, the profile flattened, but the logic of the original form persists as a slight scarp and a dark arc of vegetation tracing a roughly circular outline approximately 37 metres across. A stream along the western edge marks the boundary with the neighbouring townland of Cullenagh, cutting across what would once have been the fort's perimeter.

The site appears on the 1837 Ordnance Survey Fair Plan map as a circular enclosure labelled simply as 'fort', suggesting it retained some visible form into the nineteenth century. By 1972, however, it was recorded as having been levelled, most likely the result of agricultural improvement over the preceding century or more. The linear earthworks that radiate outward from the site are not ancient features but the remains of post-1700 drainage ditches, installed to manage the wet ground that characterises this part of the midlands. Cultivation ridges running north to south across the interior point to the same pressure to bring marginal land into productive use. The effort, it seems, did not spare the monument. Despite all of this, a Digital Globe aerial photograph taken in November 2011 showed the outline of the levelled fort still clearly visible from above, a reminder that even thoroughly disturbed earthworks can leave traces that persist for centuries in the underlying soil and vegetation.