The ringfort, known in Irish usage as a rath, a type of enclosed farmstead typically dating from the early medieval period, has been levelled, leaving only low undulations in the pasture of a north-west-facing slope. Yet the field fence running west to east bends noticeably out of its way to curve around the old enclosure. The farmer or surveyor who set that boundary, at some point after the earthwork was gone, still recognised something worth respecting.

The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 recorded the site as a circular area roughly thirty metres in diameter. At that point it was presumably still legible as a feature in the landscape, though it has since been ploughed or grazed into near-invisibility. A rath of this scale would originally have consisted of a circular earthen bank and ditch enclosing a domestic space, most likely the homestead of a farming family of middling status in early medieval Ireland. Thousands of such enclosures once existed across the country; many survive intact, but a significant number, like this one, have been reduced to shadows detectable mainly in low-angled light or from the air.