A rath, as this type of ringfort is sometimes called, was typically a raised earthen bank enclosing a domestic farmstead, common across early medieval Ireland. This one measured roughly 55 metres in diameter, large enough to have sheltered a household and its animals, and within it there may once have stood a raised mound interpreted as the remnant of a hut or small structure. Today, the wall that follows the southern arc of the old enclosure is probably the only surface trace of the original boundary, and even that is absorbed into the working landscape as ordinary field division.

Locally, the site has long been known as Mc Walter's Fort, a name that anchors it to a particular family or figure without, at this distance, making it possible to say exactly who that was. Writing in 1914, a recorder named Neary catalogued it as a circular earthen fort and noted both its form and the interior mound, suggesting the site was still legible enough at that point to be described in some detail. By 1930, when the third edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map was produced, it was recorded as a circular enclosure, but the process of erasure was clearly already well advanced. Centuries of agricultural use, field clearance, and the slow migration of boundary walls have reduced what Neary could still trace to something that requires considerable imagination to read as the outline of a settlement at all.