A ringfort once stood here, a roughly circular earthwork enclosure of around thirty metres in diameter. Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a raised bank and ditch enclosing a family farmstead. This one has been levelled, reduced by centuries of agriculture to a low rise in the ground, the kind of gentle swell that most walkers would step over without a second thought.

The site was still clearly visible when the Ordnance Survey mapped it in 1842, recorded on their six-inch map as a hachured circular enclosure, the hachuring being a cartographic technique that uses short radiating lines to indicate an earthwork or raised feature. By the time the same survey was revised in 1937, the enclosure was depicted as a hachured roughly circular raised area, still approximately thirty metres across, but the language of the description already suggests something softening and settling into the landscape. At some point between that mid-twentieth century record and the present, what remained was further reduced, leaving only the faint topographic memory of a bank that once defined the boundary of an early Irish household.