That surviving arc, rising to roughly 0.8 metres and running for just over eighteen metres, is easy to miss. Yet this modest remnant was once substantial enough to be recorded in detail on the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, shown as a clearly defined, roughly circular form. By the time the surveyors returned in 1938, only a short section of the eastern bank merited marking. Since then, the rest has been levelled entirely into the surrounding farmland.

A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed circular or oval area defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, typically built during the early medieval period in Ireland as a farmstead or place of settlement. This one carries an older layer of interpretation entirely. When Ordnance Survey fieldworkers visited in 1838, they recorded it in their field book as an old Danish fort, a phrase that reflects a once-common habit of attributing ancient earthworks to the Vikings, regardless of their actual origins. More striking still is what else they noted: that persons were formerly buried there. The reference was later published by Grove White in his early twentieth-century collection of Cork historical material. No trace of burials has been identified in the interior, and there is nothing on the surface today to suggest where, or whether, such interments ever took place. The "Danish" label is long since understood as folk attribution rather than history, but the burial tradition attached to the site adds a quietly unsettling dimension to what might otherwise read as a routine record of agricultural erasure.