The entire site now amounts to a low swelling in the ground, measuring about 12 metres by 20 metres and rising less than half a metre at its highest point. That is the sum of what is visible. What makes it stranger still is that early mapping records cannot quite agree on what stood here, or precisely where.

The first edition of the Ordnance Survey depicted a univallate circular enclosure, meaning a single-banked ringfort of the kind built across Ireland during the early medieval period, typically as a farmstead enclosed for protection or status. That version of the site was shown roughly 150 metres north of where the present remains lie. The Ordnance Survey Name Book described a circular fort about 30 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high, with the entrance to a souterrain located at its centre. A souterrain is an underground passage or chamber, usually stone-lined, associated with early medieval settlements and used variously for storage, refuge, or concealment. This one was known locally as the Red Cave. By the time the second edition of the OS map was compiled, the site had been redrawn as a rectangular enclosure, with the Red Cave relocated to its north-western corner, suggesting either that surveyors were recording different features at different times, or that the landscape itself had been misread more than once. The souterrain was said to connect underground with a second ringfort on the southern boundary of the same townland, a detail that, if accurate, would make this pair of sites unusually linked across the ground beneath the fields.