A ringfort once stood here, a circular earthen enclosure of the kind built across Ireland during the early medieval period, typically as a farmstead protected by one or more raised banks and ditches. This one measured roughly 40 metres in diameter, placing it in the middling range of such structures. Today, the ground gives nothing away.

The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded the enclosure clearly enough, marking it as a circular feature on the hillside. But by the time the local historian Power was writing in 1923, the structure was already a memory. He noted that there had been one circular lios, the Irish term for such an enclosure, of medium size on Delaney's farm, and that it had been demolished about forty years since, placing its destruction somewhere around the 1880s. Land clearance, agricultural improvement, and simple indifference accounted for the loss of countless such sites across the country during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This one was not exceptional in its fate, only in the fact that someone thought to record its passing. A second levelled ringfort lies approximately 240 metres to the north-west, suggesting this was once a landscape with at least two such enclosures in reasonably close proximity, both now gone.