A ringfort, or rath, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by earthen banks and ditches, typically dating from the early medieval period and used as a farmstead or place of shelter. This one appeared on the OS maps of 1842, 1904, and 1938 as a circular raised area about twenty metres in diameter, marked by a double set of hachures indicating two concentric banks. By the time the last of those maps was superseded, the feature was still there. Then, sometime around 1984, it was levelled.

The only surviving surface evidence is a slight curve in the field fence to the north of where the enclosure stood, a trace so subtle it would mean nothing to anyone who did not know to look for it. Fifty metres to the west, in an adjoining field, a second ringfort survives. Writing in 1937, a researcher named Broker described both as of average size with a double fence, suggesting the pair formed a modest but coherent early medieval presence in this part of mid Cork. The levelled fort may also have contained a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage typically associated with ringforts and used for storage or refuge, though no excavation appears to have confirmed this.

What makes this site quietly interesting is precisely what is missing. The 1842 map records it, the 1904 map records it, the 1938 map records it, and then the land was put back to pasture. The fence curves slightly. That is all that remains of something that stood for perhaps a thousand years.