Walk across the pasture and you would have no sense at all that you were crossing the interior of an early medieval enclosure, roughly forty-five metres across, that once defined somebody's home or farmstead. The only way to perceive it is from the air, where the buried remains of its surrounding fosse, a defensive ditch, leave a faint subcircular shadow on the soil that shows up as a cropmark, a phenomenon that occurs when buried features affect how plants grow above them, producing subtle differences in colour or height that become legible only at altitude.

The site sits on a broad plateau in a low-lying stretch of Wexford landscape, an unusual position for this type of monument. Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when defined by earthen banks and ditches rather than stone, are among the most common archaeological features in Ireland, with tens of thousands recorded across the country. Most date to the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries, and functioned as enclosed farmsteads for individual family units. This particular example was identified from aerial photography held in the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography, and was still readable on digital aerial images taken in 2006. When archaeological testing was carried out immediately to the north-east of the enclosure, the excavation, recorded under the licence reference 08E0948 and reported by McLoughlin in 2011, produced no related material. The ditch outline survives as a ghost beneath the ground, but whatever activity once took place within the enclosure has left no recoverable trace in the tested area.