This sub-circular earthwork, measuring approximately 50 metres across at its base and standing about 3.5 metres high, appears on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map simply marked as ‘fort’. The flat-topped summit, roughly 10 metres north to south and 8.5 metres east to west, is now heavily overgrown with vegetation and mature trees, whilst the southern edge has been slightly cut away by a hotel access road.

The mound sits on a slight natural rise, giving it additional prominence in the local topography. Though its exact origins and purpose remain uncertain, its substantial size and deliberate construction suggest it held significant importance for the community that built it. The site’s strategic position would have offered good views across the surrounding countryside, a typical characteristic of defensive structures from Ireland’s turbulent past.

Adding to the area’s historical intrigue, another fortification lies just 160 metres to the east; a possible castle site known locally as ‘Caisleán Uachtrach Baile Sagairt’. The proximity of these two defensive features hints at a landscape that was once heavily contested or at least carefully controlled, though without archaeological excavation, the exact relationship between these sites and their dates of construction remain tantalisingly unclear.