The raised circular earthwork, once a defended farmstead of the early medieval period, has been so thoroughly levelled that nothing of it remains visible above ground. These ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were typically formed by one or more concentric banks of earth enclosing a domestic space, and they number in the thousands across Ireland. Most survive in some form. This one does not.

The site was recorded by McCarthy in 1977 and later included in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, which catalogued it as a levelled example with no visible surface trace. What the landscape gives away now it once gave away in a different manner entirely: the hilltop position was deliberate, chosen for the same reasons that early medieval farming communities consistently favoured elevated ground, whether for drainage, visibility, or a degree of social display. Associated with this site is a souterrain, a stone-lined underground passage or chamber that typically runs beneath or beside a ringfort and was used for storage, shelter, or concealment. The souterrain is recorded separately and may represent the most durable remnant of whatever settlement once occupied this ground.

The hill itself holds the only real clue that something was once here, since the association between elevated terrain and vanished enclosures is a pattern repeated across the Cork landscape. The souterrain connection suggests the site was occupied and functional, even if the earthworks above it have long since been absorbed by agriculture or time.