Local tradition knows it as Flaherty's Fort, the kind of place-name that carries centuries of folk memory even when the physical evidence has largely disappeared. Walk the hillside today and you would find almost nothing to mark it, bar a small fragment of earthen bank on the southern side. Yet the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, produced in the nineteenth century, recorded it clearly as a subcircular enclosure measuring roughly fifty metres east to west.

The site belongs to a class of monument broadly described as an enclosure, a term that covers a wide range of prehistoric and early medieval earthworks defined by a bank, ditch, or combination of both. Whether Flaherty's Fort was ever a ringfort in the stricter sense, those circular or oval enclosed farmsteads common across Ireland from roughly the sixth to the twelfth century, is not certain. What the map evidence suggests is that it was once substantial enough to record with confidence. A note from Neary in 1914 confirms it was already being identified and catalogued by that point. Since then, agricultural activity and the natural settling of earthworks have reduced it to near invisibility. A ringfort of its own, a separate monument, survives in better condition about three hundred metres to the west-northwest, offering a sense of what the broader landscape once looked like when such enclosures were a routine feature of the Irish countryside.