A ringfort, or rath, was once a common feature of the Irish countryside; a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, typically surrounding a farmstead or dwelling from around the sixth to the twelfth century. Thousands survive in various states of preservation across the island. This particular example does not. It sits on a west-facing slope in pasture, with the sea visible to the south, and there is nothing left to see.

The site was recorded as a circular enclosure on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, which means it was still discernible, at least from a cartographic perspective, in the mid-nineteenth century. At some point after that it was levelled, most likely through agricultural activity, leaving no surface trace whatsoever. The 1842 mapping is significant because it represents one of the earliest systematic efforts to document the Irish landscape in detail, and features like this were often noted precisely because they were already beginning to disappear. That the enclosure made it onto the map at all is something of a small mercy for the archaeological record, even if nothing physical remains on the ground.