That bisection is not the only indignity the site has absorbed: the bank of earth and stone that encircles the interior has been worn down in places by grazing cattle, a gap of roughly 1.7 metres has been opened in the south-east quadrant for tractor access, and the north-east section of the bank has been incorporated into the entrance feature of a house built beside it. The ringfort, as a form, was the standard unit of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and an external fosse, a shallow ditch, intended to define a farmstead and provide a degree of security for livestock. This one measures just under forty metres across, with a fosse still just discernible at around thirty centimetres deep.

A mound recorded in the interior adds a further layer of ambiguity to the site. The Ikerrin Survey, cited by Stout in 1984, noted this mound as a possible instance of upcast, material thrown up during the construction of the road that now bisects the enclosure. If that interpretation is correct, it means the roadway is old enough to have shaped the archaeology of the place rather than simply disturbing it. Fir trees that once grew along the bank have since been felled, but the timber was left lying inside the enclosure, obscuring the mound and complicating any reading of the interior. The bank itself, where intact, still stands to an external height of around 1.5 metres, enough to give a sense of the original enclosure even if much of the detail has been softened by centuries of use and reuse.