There is nothing to see at ground level, no bank, no ditch, no hollow in the earth. The only evidence that a settlement once stood here comes from the air, where the cropmark of a circular enclosure roughly thirty metres across becomes faintly legible in the right conditions, the buried archaeology influencing how the plants above it grow, betraying itself to those looking down from above rather than up from the ground.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths or lioses, were the most common form of enclosed farmstead in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a raised earthen bank surrounding a domestic space. This particular one was already gone long before aerial photography made it visible again. Writing in 1918, O'Leary noted a 'lios' on Hosford's land in the area that 'has been ploughed up', a casual line that confirms the enclosure had already been levelled by the early twentieth century, most likely lost to the expansion of tillage farming. The cropmark was later identified by Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould through aerial photography, giving the site at least an outline where surface traces had completely vanished. There is also the possibility of a souterrain beneath the interior, a souterrain being an underground stone-lined passage associated with ringfort settlements, often used for storage or concealment, though whether anything survives in a ploughed field is uncertain.

For a visitor, there is genuinely little to be gained from standing in the field itself. The interest here lies in what the site represents methodologically: a place known only through a scholar's oblique reference and an aerial photograph, a settlement that farmed the same south-facing slope perhaps twelve centuries ago and left almost nothing behind.