A ringfort, or rath, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, used in early medieval Ireland as a farmstead or defended settlement. This particular example was one of a pair, two adjoining enclosures that once sat side by side in the same field system, their presence confirmed on the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map.

By the time the OS revisited the area for the 1933 edition of the map, the picture had already changed considerably. Only the north-eastern half of the monument was still legible enough to be marked, indicated by a line of hachures, the small hatched lines cartographers used to suggest earthworks and slopes. A field wall had been built across the site from north-west to south-east, and to the south-west of that wall nothing of the enclosure remained visible at all. McCaffrey, writing in 1952, classified it as a possible earthen fort in a very ruinous condition. Since then, deterioration has continued to the point where no surface trace of either this monument or its companion survives today. What the 1838 map recorded as a pair of enclosures is now, in practical terms, a field like any other.