Stand on the slight north-facing slope where it ought to be and there is nothing to indicate that anything once stood here, no earthworks, no raised ground, no trace of a bank or ditch. It only becomes visible from the air, where aerial photographs reveal a faint circular cropmark of around 60 metres across, the ghost of a single fosse, or enclosing ditch, pressed just below the surface of the earth.

Ringforts are among the most common early medieval monument types in Ireland, farmsteads enclosed by one or more earthen banks, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. This one was recorded as a circular enclosure of approximately 50 metres in diameter on the 1839 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, suggesting it was at least partially legible in the landscape at that point. Locally it was known as a raheen, a diminutive of the Irish word rath, the term for a ringfort, and the kind of quiet folk memory that often persists long after the physical structure has gone. Precisely when the earthworks were levelled is not recorded, but by the time of any modern ground survey nothing remained to be seen.