The site at Fihidy is one of thousands of ringforts, known in Irish as raths, scattered across the Irish landscape. These were typically the enclosed homesteads of farming families during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches that separated the domestic interior from the surrounding farmland. What makes this example quietly interesting is its particular modesty: it has endured not as a dramatic earthwork but as a subtle scarped edge, a low ridge of displaced earth that traces the perimeter of a life once lived here.

The ringfort was recorded and compiled by Denis Power, with notes uploaded in August 2011. According to those records, the site occupies a west-facing slope just below the crest of a low limestone ridge, and is roughly circular in plan, measuring 27.5 metres north to south and 28 metres east to west. It is defined by a scarped edge, meaning the ground has been deliberately cut or shaped to create a slight step in the terrain, rather than a raised bank built up from the outside. That scarp stands around 0.4 metres high and is approximately 3.5 metres wide. At the north-west, it dips for roughly seven metres, a gap or irregularity that may once have served as an entrance. The interior, now under pasture like the rest of the field, slopes gently downward toward the north.

The site sits in agricultural land, so access depends on the usual courtesies of the Irish countryside, which means keeping to field boundaries where possible and seeking permission if in doubt. The form of the ringfort is best appreciated on foot and at close range, where the slight change in ground level becomes apparent underfoot and in the way shadow falls across the scarp on a low winter afternoon. There is no signage and nothing to announce the site's presence. The limestone ridge setting is worth noting, as this geology is common across much of Limerick and Tipperary and tends to produce exactly these kinds of subtly preserved earthworks, where the shallow soils and centuries of grazing have kept the ground undisturbed without ever burying the evidence too deeply.