Most people who walk past it would see nothing more than a slight unevenness in the grass. To understand what that unevenness represents, it helps to know that ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically circular enclosures defined by an earthen bank and outer ditch, inside which a family farmed and sheltered livestock. This one, at its height, measured around 30 metres across.

The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded it clearly enough: a roughly circular raised area, hachured to indicate its form, with a fosse, or outer ditch, visible to the east. By the time more recent fieldwork was carried out, agriculture had done its quiet work. The fort had been levelled, leaving only the surviving arc running from the south-west to the north-east, rising just 20 centimetres on the interior face and 40 centimetres on the exterior. The OS map, then, is now as much a record of what existed as anything visible on the ground.