To most eyes it would read as nothing more than an uneven patch of grazing land. To anyone who knows what to look for, it is the ghost of a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead, usually circular, built in earth or stone and occupied primarily during the early medieval period in Ireland. Thousands once dotted the Irish landscape; a great many have since been ploughed, levelled, or simply absorbed into the working countryside.

This particular enclosure, roughly forty metres in diameter, was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 as a hachured circular feature, the cartographers' standard way of indicating an earthwork with sloping sides. By the time Bowman documented it in 1934, noting it on page 586 of what appears to have been a local or regional survey, it had already been levelled. The land at that point belonged to a J. D. Ryan. The site is one of two such levelled single-ramparted ringforts recorded in the immediate area, the other catalogued under a closely related reference, suggesting the two once sat in proximity on the same holding. The interior, where the original enclosed space would have been, still slopes gently down toward the northeast, following the natural lie of the ground that the original builders would have chosen and shaped.