Beneath ordinary pasture on a gentle south-facing slope lies the ghost of a ringfort, one of the thousands of roughly circular enclosures, typically dating from the early medieval period, that served as farmsteads across Ireland between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. This one has left so little impression on the landscape that it is described as not visible at ground level.

What survives in the record is a D-shaped enclosure, its longer axis running roughly west-north-west to east-south-east at around 65 metres, and its shorter axis roughly 30 metres across. The unusual D-shape, rather than the more typical round or oval, is partly explained by truncation: a road cuts across the southern side, slicing off what would presumably have completed the circuit. This detail appears on the 1839 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, where the enclosure is marked only faintly, suggesting it was already barely legible to surveyors at that point. Whatever earthworks once defined the boundary, whether a bank, a ditch, or both, they had by then been reduced to little more than a trace.