The site commands extensive views in all directions from its elevated position, yet it left almost no visible trace above the soil. What little a field investigator noticed in 1980, a faint, low scarp along the north-eastern edge of the natural rise, was considered so ambiguous that it might equally have been a remnant of old cultivation ridges rather than evidence of any enclosure at all.

The case for the ringfort was eventually made not by boots on the ground but by aerial imagery. Digital Globe photography revealed a light-green circular cropmark roughly 54 metres in diameter, enclosing a darker patch of rough pasture in the interior. Cropmarks of this kind form when buried or levelled features alter soil moisture and drainage, causing the grass or crops above to grow at a slightly different rate or colour from the surrounding land. Crucially, the old cultivation ridges running ENE to WSW across the field appear to respect the line of the enclosure, meaning they stop short of or skirt around it, which suggests the ringfort was already a feature in the landscape before those ridges were ever ploughed. Ringforts, which are roughly circular enclosures defined by earthen banks and ditches, were the dominant settlement form in early medieval Ireland, typically associated with farming families of some local standing. A public road running north-east to south-west now cuts through the north-western sector of the monument. Within the western quadrant of the enclosure sits a souterrain, a type of underground stone-lined passage or chamber commonly associated with ringforts, likely used for storage or as a place of refuge, recorded separately under its own monument reference.