What was once a ringfort, marked clearly on the first edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, has now vanished from view. According to National Monuments Ireland records, this circular earthwork measured approximately 150 feet in diameter; a typical size for these early medieval homesteads that once dotted the Irish countryside.

The fort occupied a strategic position on the southeastern slope of a hill, surrounded by fertile farmland that would have made it an ideal location for a prosperous farming family. Ringforts, known locally as ráths or lios, served as defended farmsteads between the early medieval period and the 12th century, housing extended families, their livestock, and storage buildings within protective earthen banks and ditches.

Today, centuries of agriculture and land improvement have erased any visible trace of this particular fort. Like thousands of others across Ireland, it has been levelled, ploughed over, or simply weathered away by time. While the physical structure may be gone, its presence on historical maps serves as a testament to the complex network of settlements that once characterised rural Ireland, each fort representing a family’s claim to the land and their place in the intricate social hierarchy of Gaelic society.