It commands decent views northward, but is otherwise exposed and overlooked, which makes its position feel less like a commanding vantage point and more like a practical compromise. This is Lickeen Fort, an earthen enclosure roughly 31 metres in diameter, and its survival, partial and battered as it is, tells a quiet story about how long the Irish landscape holds onto its oldest modifications.

The fort takes the form of a raised earthen bank surrounding a circular interior, with an external fosse, meaning a ditch, running around the outside. A fosse of this kind was a standard feature of Irish ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads that were built in their thousands across Ireland from roughly the early medieval period onwards. At Lickeen, the bank survives best on the eastern and southern sides, where it still reaches around a metre in height and six metres across at the base. The western and northern stretches have been considerably reduced, worn down to little more than a low scarp. The external ditch mirrors this pattern: flat-bottomed and reasonably well preserved to the east and south, with a width of up to seven metres at the top, it fades to a shallow trace on the other sides. A gentle lowering of the bank for a length of about eight metres on the east side may mark where the original entrance once stood. Several cattle gaps, narrow breaks in the bank no more than about 70 centimetres wide, have been cut through at various points over the years, and the interior itself is overgrown and slopes steeply, crossed by a stone wall running roughly north to south. The site appeared on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps in both 1840 and 1916, named consistently as Lickeen Fort, suggesting it was already a recognised feature of the local landscape long before any formal archaeological attention was paid to it.