Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were typically circular enclosures defined by an earthen bank and ditch, used as farmsteads and homesteads from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. What makes this one quietly arresting is how completely agriculture has consumed it: the interior now registers only as a patch of darker soil, the kind of crop mark or soil discolouration that, from the right angle or in the right light, betrays centuries of human occupation to anyone paying attention.

When an inspector visited in October 1955, the site was still legible enough to be described in some detail. At that point, the earthwork measured roughly 27 metres across, encircled by an earthen bank around three metres wide, a fosse, or defensive ditch, some three and a half metres wide and over a metre deep, and a slighter outer bank visible only on the southern and western sides. The whole was overgrown with bracken. Since then, ploughing has done its work, and the double enclosure that gave the site its more elaborate character has been reduced to that faint rise and the faint dip at the northern edge, which hints at where the fosse once ran. The south-west facing slope on which it sits is typical of Irish ringfort placement, where a sheltered aspect and good drainage mattered as much as any defensive consideration.