That near-total invisibility is itself part of what makes the site quietly arresting. A rath, as ringforts of earthen construction are known in Irish archaeology, was typically a circular enclosure defined by one or more raised earthen banks and ditches, used during the early medieval period as a farmstead or place of domestic enclosure. This one, however, has been reduced to something that exists more as a cartographic fact than a physical feature.

The only firm evidence for the enclosure comes from the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1846, which records it as a circular feature approximately twenty metres in diameter. That survey, carried out in the mid-nineteenth century with considerable precision for its time, frequently captured earthworks that were already beginning to fade from the landscape, and in some cases documented features that subsequent decades of agriculture would erase entirely. Whether this site had already lost much of its relief by the time the surveyors came through, or whether it has degraded further in the intervening century and a half, is not recorded. What remains is a slope, a field, a view across the Laune estuary, and a mark on an old map indicating that something once stood here and was considered worth noting.