The local name was recorded as far back as 1914, and there is something faintly arresting about a monument that has accumulated its own vernacular identity across the centuries, quite apart from whatever its original inhabitants called it.

The fort itself is a well-preserved subcircular ringfort, measuring roughly 40 metres north to south and 37 metres east to west. A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is a type of enclosed settlement typical of early medieval Ireland, usually dating from around the fifth to the twelfth century, where a family or small community lived within a defended circular enclosure. Here, the enclosure is defined by two stone-faced banks with a fosse, or ditch, running between them, a double-banked arrangement that indicates a site of some status or defensive intent. Within the interior there is a probable souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber that would have served for storage or concealment. The monument has not escaped entirely unscathed; a silage pit has been cut into the north-eastern section, a reminder that agricultural practicality has long pressed against the edges of archaeological survival.