Both are known as Higgin's Fort, a detail recorded by Neary in 1914, and the doubling raises quiet questions about local memory, land ownership, and how names attach themselves to earthworks over generations. The site in question here is the more easterly of the pair, and it has not fared well against time and agriculture.

The monument is a circular rath, a type of enclosed farmstead built predominantly during the early medieval period, typically between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Such enclosures were usually formed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, protecting a family's dwelling and livestock. At Attiflynn, the defining feature that survives is a scarp, essentially a slope in the ground marking where the original bank or ditch once stood, and even that disappears entirely on the eastern side. The interior diameter of approximately 44 metres is a reasonable size for a rath of this kind, suggesting it once enclosed a modest but functioning farmstead. Field boundaries, drawn across the landscape at various points in the intervening centuries, cut through the monument, which helps explain its poor state of preservation. The archaeology beneath the surface may yet be more intact than what can be seen at ground level, but above ground there is little left to read.