The circular enclosure, once roughly forty metres in diameter, leaves no visible surface trace. The buildings that now occupy the site have done what centuries of agriculture and erosion so often do: erased the physical presence of a monument while leaving its outline fossilised on older maps.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches. They served as farmsteads, their raised banks providing a degree of protection for livestock and family. This particular example in Summerville was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps as a circular enclosure approximately forty metres across, and was formally classified as a ringfort by Claffey in 1983. That classification places it within a type of monument found in the thousands across the Irish countryside, though each individual site carries its own local history, now largely unrecoverable here given the absence of any surviving earthwork.