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 a fosse, the external ditch that provided both material for the bank and a further obstacle to livestock or intruders. What survives at this particular example is considerably reduced from its original form, but enough remains in the pasture to register as a landscape anomaly.

When Bowman recorded the site in 1934, it was on land belonging to H. O'Connor and presented as a single-ramparted enclosure with a bank roughly seven feet high, a diameter of around forty-three yards, and an interior that sat some four feet above the level of the surrounding field. That elevated interior is characteristic of raths that have accumulated material over centuries of use. The same enclosure appears on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps from 1842, 1904, and 1937, each time marked as a hachured circle of around forty metres across, which suggests the earthwork remained reasonably legible throughout that period. Sometime around 1970, however, local accounts indicate that the fort was levelled, most likely as part of agricultural improvement works. What the ground now shows is a saucer-shaped depression and low rise, roughly 39.5 metres north to south and 34.5 metres east to west, with a shallow hollow to the west that marks the remnant of the fosse. The reduction from a bank of over two metres to one of barely forty centimetres is a familiar story across the Irish countryside, where twentieth-century land clearance dismantled features that had survived intact for over a thousand years.

The site sits on the south-facing slope of an east-west ridge, set into pasture. The cluster of five ringforts in the immediately surrounding fields is the more striking detail for anyone approaching the area with an interest in early settlement patterns, suggesting that this was a notably active agricultural zone during the early medieval period, with separate enclosed farmsteads operating in close proximity to one another.