It shows up only from the air, where differences in crop growth betray the outline of a buried structure beneath, a phenomenon known as a cropmark. What the aerial photograph reveals is a bivallate enclosure, meaning one defined by two concentric circular banks or ditches rather than the more common single ring, which suggests this was a settlement of some consequence in the early medieval period when ringforts were in common use across Ireland.

The site was identified through aerial photography by Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould, a figure well known for her work documenting the Irish landscape from above and on foot during the mid-twentieth century. Her image captured the double-ring plan clearly enough to record it as a rath, the Irish term for an earthen ringfort, though nothing of that earthwork survives at ground level today. The site is also referenced in excavation records from 2003, which suggests some degree of further investigation, though the detail of what that work found is not captured here. Cropmark sites like this one occupy an odd category in the archaeological record; present enough to be recorded, absent enough to be easy to walk past without knowing anything is there at all.