The only reliable image of it comes from the Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1842, where it was recorded as a hachured circular enclosure of roughly thirty metres in diameter. Hachuring was the cartographers' shorthand for an earthwork, a way of sketching raised banks and ditches before contour lines became standard. What they recorded has since been levelled entirely, leaving no visible trace in the pasture that now covers the north-facing slope.

Ringforts, known in Irish as ráth when formed from earthen banks, were the most common form of enclosed settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from around the sixth to the twelfth century. They served as farmsteads, protecting a family and its livestock within a circular bank and ditch. Thousands survive across the country in varying states of preservation, but many others, like this one, were cleared over centuries of agricultural improvement. The 1842 map catches this particular example at what may already have been a late stage of survival, preserved just long enough for the surveyors to note it before it disappeared beneath the plough or the levelling spade.