A ringfort once stood here, a roughly circular earthwork enclosure of the kind the Irish commonly call a rath, typically consisting of a raised bank and ditch that defined a farmstead or settlement during the early medieval period. This one measured approximately 35 metres across and commanded extensive views to the north, east, and south. Today, nothing of it remains above ground.

The record of its disappearance can be traced with some precision through successive maps. The 1837 Ordnance Survey Fair Plan annotated it simply as "Fort" and showed a roughly circular earthwork still legible in the landscape. By the time the revised 25-inch Ordnance Survey edition appeared in 1913, the shape had already shifted to something more irregular, suggesting that quarrying had begun to eat into the bank. When the site was visited and described in 1970, what remained was only a broad, shallow, oval-shaped depression, faint enough to be recognisable but no longer carrying any trace of a bank or defined interior. Since then, even that depression has gone; aerial photography shows nothing at the location where the maps once placed it. The earthwork was not lost to time alone but to deliberate extraction, the stone or material of its banks taken for some other purpose now unrecorded.