A rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, was once a circular earthen enclosure, typically used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, bounded by one or more raised banks and ditches. This one has been ploughed flat. What remains is a stony patch of earth on a north-east-facing slope, a field fence that quietly bends to follow a curve it has no apparent reason to follow, and a view northward across the Bride valley that has changed rather less than the ground beneath your feet.

The ringfort was still visible, at least in plan, when the Ordnance Survey mapped this part of Cork in 1842. The six-inch map from that year shows it hachured as a circular enclosure with a diameter of approximately thirty metres, modest by any measure but consistent with a single-farmstead rath. Sometime between that survey and the present, the banks were levelled, most likely through repeated tillage. The stone-faced earthen field fence running north to south on the western side is the site's most legible survival; its slight curve is not a product of the topography but a memory of the enclosure it was built alongside. The stony ground within what would have been the interior suggests the presence of structural remains just below the surface, though no trace is visible above it.