That, in a way, is precisely what makes it worth knowing about. On a north-west-facing pasture slope, a ringfort once stood, a circular earthwork enclosure of the kind built across Ireland during the early medieval period, typically as a defended farmstead. It measured roughly 35 metres in diameter, modest by the standards of such sites, and at some point before living memory it was levelled so thoroughly that no surface trace remains.

The earliest documentary record of the site is a broken line on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, which indicates the circular outline of the enclosure even as it suggests the earthwork was already in poor condition at the time of surveying. The broken rather than continuous line is a telling detail: cartographers used it to mark features that were degraded or ambiguous. By 1923, the antiquarian Patrick Power described it in his survey work as a lios, the Irish term for a ringfort, noting its circular plan and moderate size, but recording that it had been levelled. The earthwork had almost certainly been cleared to make agricultural land more workable, a fate that befell many hundreds of similar sites across Munster during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.