Where there was once a raised earthen enclosure, there is now a ring of differential growth, a subtle discolouration in the pasture that marks out a circle roughly 34 metres across. It is the kind of site that rewards aerial photography far more than a visit on foot, and indeed it is through an aerial photograph taken in 1968 that the outline of the old fosse, the external ditch that once ran around the base of the enclosing bank, became properly visible as a cropmark.

Ringforts, also called raths, were the typical enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, circular earthworks defined by a bank and ditch that sheltered a household and perhaps some livestock. This one was already in poor condition when it was inspected in 1963. Quarrying had badly disturbed the interior, though at that point the surrounding bank, between 1.2 and 1.8 metres in external height and about 1.5 metres wide, along with the shallow outer fosse, remained relatively intact. Sometime in the following five years the earthworks were levelled entirely, and by the time an aerial survey captured the site in 1968, the physical structure was gone. What survived was only the ghost of the fosse, showing as a band of slightly different grass growth three metres wide, still tracing the original circuit of the enclosure.