Its existence is known almost entirely from the air.

Aerial photography of the area revealed a cropmark, the telltale differential in how crops grow over buried features, tracing the outline of a fosse and a fragment of an external bank running from the west to the south of a roughly circular enclosure approximately 35 metres in diameter. A fosse is simply a ditch, typically dug to define or defend a boundary, and the external bank would have been formed from the upcast soil thrown outward as the ditch was cut. Together they suggest a ringfort or similar enclosed settlement, the kind of feature that was once common across the Irish countryside, often dating to the early medieval period, though without excavation the date here remains uncertain. The site is catalogued in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Volume 4, covering North Cork.