A ringfort once occupied this ground, a roughly circular earthen enclosure of the kind built across Ireland during the early medieval period, typically as a defended farmstead for a single family or small community. By the time the Ordnance Survey's six-inch map was drawn in 1842, the enclosure was still legible enough to be recorded with hachures, the short radiating lines surveyors used to indicate an earthwork, measuring approximately forty metres in diameter. That cartographic trace is now among the clearest evidence that anything stood here at all.

Sometime after that 1842 survey, the ringfort was levelled, most likely through agricultural clearance as pasture land was improved and obstacles to grazing or tillage were removed. This was a fate shared by many such sites across Cork and the wider country during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. What remains is a low scarp on the northern side of the former enclosure, rising to about 1.1 metres, which follows the line of what would have been the enclosing bank. The site also overlooks the location of a second, separately recorded ringfort that has likewise been levelled. The proximity of two such enclosures is not unusual; ringforts were sometimes built within sight of one another, reflecting the social landscape of early medieval settlement in which neighbouring family groups worked adjacent land.