A ringfort, or rath, was typically a circular area surrounded by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a defended farmstead or settlement. Here, that enclosure has been almost entirely levelled, and what a careful eye might catch today is a slight scarp tracing an arc from south around to west-northwest, the ghost of a boundary that once described a circle roughly thirty metres across.

The site appears faithfully on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps from 1842, 1904, and 1937, each time rendered as a hachured circular enclosure, the standard cartographic shorthand for an earthwork feature. That it appears consistently across nearly a century of mapping suggests it was still recognisable as a feature well into the twentieth century, even as agricultural pressure gradually erased it. By 1934, when a researcher named Bowman recorded it, the fort was already in poor condition. Bowman noted it as one of five levelled or partially levelled ringforts on land belonging to a Mr Leader in this part of north Cork, a cluster of losses on a single holding that speaks to the scale at which these monuments were quietly removed from the landscape during the modern farming era.