The earthwork itself has been levelled, leaving behind pasture on a low rise, and yet the landscape has not entirely forgotten what was once there. An arc of field fence to the south curves in a way that follows the old enclosure line, suggesting that whoever laid out that boundary was either working around something still visible at the time, or simply following a local memory of where the ground had once been shaped.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, was a circular or oval enclosed farmstead, typically defended by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and they were built in their thousands across Ireland during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. This one was recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, where it appears as a hachured oval enclosure, the cartographers' shorthand for a raised earthwork, measuring approximately twenty-five metres east to west and twenty metres north to south. That it was still legible enough to map in the nineteenth century, yet has since been levelled entirely, says something about the pace of agricultural change in the intervening period.