To most eyes this is unremarkable farmland, but those undulations are the last trace of a ringfort, a circular earthen enclosure of the early medieval period, where an Irish farming family once lived within a raised bank and ditch. The site is now effectively levelled, its original form surviving only as a subtle topographical memory in the turf.

The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded it clearly, showing a hachured circular enclosure of around fifty metres in diameter. Hachuring on early OS maps indicates a raised earthwork, so at that point the banks were still visible enough to be worth marking. By the time later editions of the same map series were produced, the fort itself had been reduced, but its southern arc had been quietly preserved, almost accidentally, in the line of a curved field fence. Field boundaries in Ireland often follow the edges of older earthworks long after those earthworks have disappeared, and this is a small example of how ancient land divisions can persist in the modern landscape without anyone necessarily noticing or intending it.