That kind of place-name is rare. Most ringforts, the circular or near-circular enclosed farmsteads that dot the Irish landscape in their thousands, have names rooted in family lineage or local topography. A name that aligns a site with an entire provincial identity hints at something more pointed, though exactly what that significance was is now lost to us.

The earthwork itself is substantial. It is univallate, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the two or three concentric rings found at higher-status sites, yet the dimensions are generous: the interior spans roughly 53 metres north to south and 59 metres east to west, and the enclosing earthen bank reaches three metres in height on its outer face and seven metres in width at its base. A fosse, the exterior ditch that would have made the bank appear even more imposing from outside, runs around the outside, dropping about a metre below the surrounding ground level. The overall shape is sub-rectangular rather than the more typical circular form, which itself marks the site out from the norm. Inside, centred within the enclosure, are the remains of a possible house-site: an oval stone structure measuring roughly 19 by 22 metres externally, its own low bank still visible, and a small depression measuring about four metres by three and a half metres in the north-western part of its interior. What that depression represents, whether a souterrain entrance, a storage pit, or something else entirely, is not recorded. The western bank of the whole enclosure has been cut by a later fieldbank, and further fieldbanks converge on the south-eastern corner, the ordinary agricultural logic of later centuries slowly overwriting an older one.