A long silage pit runs northeast to southwest across what was once the interior of the enclosure, cutting through the centre of a monument that was already under pressure by the time anyone thought to record it carefully. Aerial photography shows the earthwork as a tree-lined ring in the pasture, a ghostly outline that only makes sense once you know what to look for.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is an enclosed farmstead of early medieval Ireland, typically circular and defined by one or more earthen banks with external ditches. This example sits on a slight rise in gently undulating pasture, commanding reasonable views across the surrounding land, and was recorded on the revised 1913 Ordnance Survey twenty-five-inch map as a suboval earthwork. When fieldworkers examined it in 1970, they found a roughly circular enclosure some 39 metres in diameter, defined by a steep scarp, an intervening fosse (the ditch between the inner and outer elements of the defences), and an outer bank. The fosse was steep-sided, wide, and flat-bottomed, though already partially backfilled with organic material and modern debris by that point. A causeway crossing the fosse at the east-southeast survived, 5.3 metres wide overall and just under a metre high, though the corresponding gap through the scarp had been lost to quarrying. By 1972, a field report noted that most of the southern side of the monument had been dug away entirely to make room for the silage pit. Some large stones remained visible in the counterscarp, and the northern quadrant of the interior retained something of its original surface, but the site as a whole had been substantially reduced. Notably, two further ringforts lie within roughly 165 metres to the south and south-southwest, suggesting this was once a landscape with a relatively dense pattern of early settlement.