The name suggests a memory of a particular family or individual, though what survives on the ground is modest: a roughly oval enclosure measuring about 34 metres east to west and 30.5 metres north to south, its outline held partly by a bank of earth and stone on the eastern side and elsewhere by a natural or worked scarp, a slope cut or shaped to reinforce the boundary.

This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a class of monument that was built in very large numbers across Ireland roughly between the early medieval period and the Norman arrival, broadly from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Most were farmsteads, the enclosed homes of farming families rather than military strongholds, though the enclosing bank and ditch would have offered some protection for livestock and household alike. The gap on the eastern side, about 2.5 metres wide, may be the original entrance, openings on the eastern side being a common feature of such sites across the country. The fort is poorly preserved, its profile worn down by centuries of agricultural use, but the ridge-top position above the river gives a sense of why the spot was chosen: it commanded a clear view of the surrounding land. A second ringfort lies roughly 250 metres to the east, suggesting this was once a settled and perhaps relatively prosperous landscape, with neighbouring enclosures close enough to have been occupied by related families or contemporaries. A note recorded by Neary in 1914 confirms the local name was already attached to the site by the early twentieth century, preserving at least a thread of vernacular memory around a monument that the land itself has nearly swallowed.