That administrative line, which predates any modern map, may itself explain why so little of the monument survived: responsibility for it, in a sense, belonged to no one place.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a raised circular interior surrounded by one or more earthen banks and ditches. A bivallate ringfort, such as this one, had two such concentric rings, suggesting a household of some status. The 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded it as a circular enclosure roughly 32 metres across internally, already cut through from west to north by the townland boundary, with no enclosing bank visible on the northern side. By the time the revised 1911 edition was surveyed, only the arc from north-north-east around to east-south-east retained any clear trace of bank, fosse, and outer bank. A site report from 1975 noted that a silage pit had been constructed directly on the monument, and aerial photography from November 2011 shows modern farm buildings occupying the interior. Three other ringforts survive within roughly 275 metres of this one, which suggests the area was once densely settled, making the near-total loss of this particular example all the more pointed. Today only a single segment of the enclosing bank remains at the western side, standing to a maximum height of 2.5 metres above a shallow fosse, a remnant that marks where the outer edge of a working farmstead once stood.