The earthwork has been levelled, its banks broken down and scattered into a spread of stones across the soil, but from the air the outline of its fosse, the defensive ditch that once encircled the enclosure, still bleeds through as a cropmark, a ghostly ring made visible only when differential moisture or soil depth affects the growth of whatever crop happens to be growing above it.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, was a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used during the early medieval period in Ireland as a farmstead and defensible homestead. This particular example measured approximately thirty metres in diameter, a fairly modest size. What makes its documentary history quietly interesting is the precision with which it can be tracked across successive Ordnance Survey six-inch maps: the 1842 edition shows it as a hachured circular enclosure, and both the 1905 and 1935 editions still indicate a surviving portion of the fosse running from the south around to the north-north-west. Somewhere between 1935 and the present, the earthwork was finally ploughed flat. A second ringfort survives roughly 160 metres to the west-north-west, which suggests this was once a landscape with at least two neighbouring enclosed settlements, a pattern not uncommon in early medieval Cork.

The site sits in agricultural land and is not accessible as a visitor destination, but the aerial photograph that captured the cropmark, held in the GSI aerial photographic archive under reference R522, preserves the clearest evidence of what the ground still holds just beneath its surface.