Located on the northwest face of a ridge that runs northwest to southeast through pastureland, this earthwork was once prominent enough to be marked as a fort on the 1837 Ordnance Survey Fair Plan. The original survey depicted it as a sub-rectangular earthwork with distinctively rounded corners at the northwest and southwest, though by that time a gravel pit had already begun eating into the southern quadrant of the structure.

Today, visitors to the site would find little to mark where this earthwork once stood; the monument has been completely levelled, leaving no visible traces on the ground. The area sits within a broader archaeological landscape, with a ringfort located 420 metres to the southeast and another earthwork 635 metres to the northwest, suggesting this was once a significant zone of settlement and activity. While the physical monument may be gone, modern technology occasionally reveals ghostly hints of the past; a Digital Globe aerial photograph from November 2011 showed what might be a faint crop mark where the old quarry once was.

The site’s transformation from defensive earthwork to gravel pit to empty field tells a familiar story of Ireland’s changing landscape priorities over the centuries. What was once considered worth fortifying became a source of building materials, and eventually returned to agricultural use, leaving only map annotations and aerial photographs to hint at its former presence.