On the east-facing slope just above the river, a ringfort once stood, its circular earthen boundary enclosing a space roughly 38 metres across. Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a raised bank and ditch surrounding a farmstead. This one has been levelled, leaving only an uneven surface where the ground refuses to lie quite flat.

What makes this site quietly interesting is its paper trail. The Ordnance Survey mapped it in 1842 as a hachured circular enclosure, those short radiating lines used on early maps to suggest a raised earthwork, and it appeared again on the 1904 to 1905 revision, and once more on the 1936 to 1937 survey. Each time, the enclosure was still legible enough to record. Somewhere between that final mapping and the present day, the banks were removed, most likely as agricultural land was consolidated and improved. The Awbeg River, which runs through this part of County Cork before joining the Blackwater, would have made the location attractive for early settlers: water close by, a gentle slope for drainage, and an outlook across the valley.