Yet that near-invisibility is itself the point of interest. The earthworks here are the remnants of a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built across Ireland roughly between the early Christian period and the early medieval centuries, typically consisting of one or more circular banks and ditches surrounding a domestic settlement. What makes this particular example quietly compelling is that it appears to have been a bivallate site, meaning it once had two concentric enclosing banks rather than the more common single one, suggesting a degree of status or security that went beyond the ordinary.

The Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1842 recorded the site as a hachured circular enclosure with a diameter of around 30 metres, showing at least one distinct bank still legible in the landscape at that time. By the point at which the earthworks were more carefully assessed, that inner bank had been entirely destroyed, levelled into the surrounding pasture. The outer bank, which had not even been captured on the 1842 map, partially survives to the west, appearing now as a low external rise beside a shallow fosse, the term for a ditch forming part of a defensive or enclosing earthwork. The full north-to-south extent of the remaining circular area measures approximately 43 metres, somewhat larger than the earlier mapped diameter, hinting at the original scale of the outer enclosure. The site sits on a west-facing slope, which would have given its original inhabitants a broad outlook across the valley below.