What they would be missing is a ringfort, the type of enclosed farmstead that was once so common across early medieval Ireland that tens of thousands of them were built, yet each surviving example carries its own quietly particular history. This one even has a name: Lissanakirka, recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840, where it appears as a circular enclosure. The lios element of that placename is an Irish word for an earthen enclosure or fortified homestead, suggesting the site was known and named locally long before any cartographer came to document it.

By the time the Ordnance Survey returned to map the area again at a larger scale in 1897, the enclosure was rendered as a slightly oval shape, with dimensions of roughly 31 metres on the northeast to southwest axis and 33 metres northwest to southeast, bounded by a bank. Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were typically constructed during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and functioned as enclosed farmsteads rather than military fortifications in any modern sense. The bank would have defined a protected domestic space, perhaps housing a family, their livestock, and any associated outbuildings. More recent satellite imagery, including Digital Globe orthoimages taken between 2011 and 2013 and imagery available through Google Earth, has shown not only the enclosing bank but also traces of what may be an external fosse, a shallow ditch that would originally have run around the outside of the bank to reinforce the boundary.

The site sits in pasture approximately 290 metres east of the Ahnalushnia Stream, which forms the townland boundary between Cullane Middle and Kilgarriff. That boundary stream is itself a useful navigational marker if you are orienting yourself on a map before visiting. The monument is on agricultural land, so access would depend on the landowner's permission. The bank and its outline are most legible from above, which is why the satellite imagery has proved useful in confirming its extent, but on the ground, particularly in late autumn or winter when vegetation is lower, the circular earthwork is visible as a subtle but distinct rise in the pasture. Look also for any hint of a depression outside the bank, which would be the possible fosse, though its traces are faint.