The Ordnance Survey six-inch maps record it as a circular enclosure roughly 45 metres in diameter, but the ground itself offers nothing to confirm this. No bank, no ditch, no earthwork of any kind survives at the surface. What was once a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, an enclosed farmstead typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and associated with early medieval settlement from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries, has been absorbed entirely into the surrounding farmland.

What makes the site quietly interesting is not what remains but what the map implies. A second enclosure lies just 25 metres to the north-west, suggesting that this corner of the Knockacarrigeen hillside once held a cluster of activity rather than an isolated dwelling. Paired or proximate enclosures are not unknown in the Irish landscape, and their proximity sometimes points to related family farmsteads or successive phases of occupation, though in this case no excavation or detailed survey has been carried out to say more. The record is spare, and the land has moved on.