What remains of this ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead common throughout early medieval Ireland, is barely visible: a low stony bank, widening to around 1.6 metres, that at its most prominent point scarcely rises above the level of the surrounding grass. The enclosure measures roughly 24 metres across, and the northern arc of the bank is the best-preserved stretch, though even that offers little drama to the casual eye. It is precisely this near-invisibility that makes it worth pausing over.

Ringforts, also known as raths, were typically built between around 500 and 1000 AD as enclosed farmsteads, their earthen or stone banks defining the domestic space of a single family or small community. The Baslickane example was recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map as a circular enclosure, which suggests it was still legible as a distinct feature in the landscape when surveyors passed through in the nineteenth century. It has settled considerably since. In the south-eastern quadrant of the interior, three shallow circular depressions sit against the inner face of the bank, each averaging about 2 metres in diameter. These are thought to represent the foundations of hut sites, the ghostly outlines of small structures where people once lived and worked, their walls long since collapsed and absorbed into the ground.