The earthwork in question survives only as a very low rise in pasture on a north-east-facing slope, its circular outline measuring roughly thirty metres across. The interior bank stands no more than twenty centimetres above the ground inside, and around fifty centimetres on the exterior, which is barely enough to cast a shadow. Yet the shape endures, and locals have long called it simply "the fort."

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were enclosed farmsteads built predominantly during the early medieval period, typically defined by one or more circular earthen banks and ditches. By 1842, when the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch map of the area, this one had already acquired a secondary feature: a limekiln built into its eastern side. Limekilns were used to burn limestone into quicklime for agricultural use, and it was common practice to exploit a ready-made earthen structure as a convenient wall or backing for the kiln. That detail alone tells a small story about how the site was being treated by the nineteenth century, its original function long forgotten and its fabric put to practical use. A possible souterrain also lies within the interior. Souterrains are stone-lined underground passages associated with early medieval settlements, sometimes used for storage or as places of refuge. The note recorded by Broker in 1937 adds a blunt coda: the fort was, he wrote, levelled completely about 1921, presumably during agricultural improvement. That the earthwork is still faintly legible in the landscape, despite that account, suggests either that the levelling was incomplete or that the ground has a long memory.