A shallow depression in the ground, roughly thirty metres across, is all that remains of what was once a univallate ringfort, meaning a roughly circular enclosure defined by a single earthen bank and ditch. These structures were built in their thousands across early medieval Ireland, serving as farmsteads and small defended settlements, and their earthworks were once substantial enough to define the landscape. Here, the bank has been reduced to a faint bowl in the soil, the kind of thing you might walk across without registering.

The ringfort was recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map, which means it was still visible as a distinct feature when surveyors passed through in the nineteenth century. By the time J. Cuppage documented it for the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, published in 1986, the enclosure had declined to the slight hollow that persists today. The notes observe that the surrounding pastureland was in the process of being improved at the time of recording, a phrase that in agricultural contexts often signals drainage, ploughing, or levelling works that can hasten the loss of earthwork sites. What the first edition map captured as a legible monument has since been almost entirely absorbed back into the field.