The fort at Maulikeeve is modest enough on the surface: a roughly circular enclosure, nearly thirty metres across, its earthen bank rising about a metre and faced on the outside with stone. Inside the northern bank, a standing stone survives. These elements are unusual enough in combination, but it is the persistent local tradition of an underground passage connecting this site to a second ringfort at Laharanshermeen, some distance away, that gives the place its particular quality of quiet strangeness.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common form of enclosed farmstead in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the sixth to the twelfth century. They range from simple earthen enclosures to elaborate multi-vallate structures, and a significant number contain souterrains, which are dry-stone underground passages or chambers thought to have served as storage spaces or places of refuge. At Maulikeeve, a possible souterrain has been identified within the interior, though no entrance or visible trace of it is apparent at ground level. Myler, writing in 1998, noted the local tradition explicitly: that a tunnel once connected this fort to the one at Laharanshermeen. Such stories of linking passages between separate sites are not uncommon in Irish folk memory, and while they are rarely confirmed archaeologically, they often reflect a genuine sense that adjacent monuments were related in use or in the lives of the people who built them. Whether this particular tradition preserves a real memory of some structural feature, or simply expresses the intuition that two neighbouring forts must have had something to do with each other, is impossible to say.