The first edition of the six-inch OS map shows a complete circular enclosure on a low rise of ground in north Tipperary. By the time the current edition was drawn, roughly a third of that circle had vanished, the bank and its accompanying fosse erased in an arc running from the north-west, through the north, and round to the east. What remains is still legible as a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built across early medieval Ireland, typically between the fifth and twelfth centuries, in which a family and their livestock sheltered within a raised earthen bank. But the missing section is a quiet record of agricultural clearance or land improvement at some point between two surveys, the kind of incremental loss that rarely makes it into any written account.

The surviving earthwork measures around 28 metres across its east-west axis. Where the bank still stands, it rises a modest 25 centimetres above the interior ground level but sits 1.7 metres above the outer ground surface, which gives some sense of how the enclosure would once have looked from the outside: a deliberate, conspicuous boundary. The outer fosse, a defensive or drainage ditch running alongside the bank, was originally around four metres wide and half a metre deep. These dimensions are unremarkable by Irish ringfort standards, placing this firmly in the ordinary, workaday category of such sites rather than among the larger or more elaborately defended examples. No entrance feature is now visible, which may be a consequence of the same destruction that took out the northern arc, or simply the result of centuries of weathering and agricultural use.