The earlier cartographers recorded it as a circular enclosure, the classic form of an Irish rath; by the end of the century, surveyors were describing a raised sub-rectangular shape, roughly 40 metres north to south and 32 metres east to west, defined by a scarp and a fosse. That shift in recorded outline, from circle to near-rectangle, likely reflects the gradual effects of agricultural pressure on the earthwork rather than any dramatic event, but it gives the site an quietly instructive quality: you can watch, across two maps, a monument changing under the weight of ordinary farming life.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths when they consist of earthen banks rather than stone, were the dominant form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically enclosing a farmstead and its associated buildings within a circular raised bank and external ditch. Thousands survive across the country in varying states of preservation. This particular example sits in reclaimed pasture about 30 metres north of a field boundary that also marks the townland division with Tobernea West, placing it right at the edge of two named territories. It was recorded and compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick, with notes uploaded in August 2021, drawing on both historical Ordnance Survey mapping and more recent satellite imagery from Digital Globe and Google Earth, taken between 2011 and 2013.

The site is not formally managed as a visitor destination. Its outline, partly obscured by scrub growth, is more legible from aerial and satellite imagery than from ground level, which makes consulting the Google Earth orthoimages before any visit a practical first step. On the ground, the scarp and fosse remain the key things to look for; the change in ground level where the old bank was levelled is often the most tangible sign that something deliberate once shaped the landscape here. Because the monument lies within reclaimed agricultural land, access would depend on the landowner's permission, and the surrounding pasture means conditions underfoot vary considerably with the season.