What distinguishes this particular example is its name: recorded in Irish as Lios a Thornora, meaning the fort of the wheel-wright. Most ringforts carry names that describe topography or family lineage; a name that preserves a craftsman's trade is a small, quietly specific survival, suggesting that whoever shaped wooden wheels here was well enough known to leave his occupation lodged in the local memory for centuries.

The fort was recorded by Bowman in 1934 as a single-ramparted example, meaning one earthen bank and likely a corresponding outer ditch enclosed the domestic space within. By the time Bowman was writing, the site had already been absorbed into more recent use: a residence belonging to a Mrs Buckley had been built directly on the fort. This is not unusual in the Irish landscape, where ringforts were frequently cleared, quarried, or built upon, though folk belief in the dangers of disturbing a lios, the fairy fort, protected many others from exactly that fate. The site is also associated with a possible souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber that often served early medieval households for storage or refuge, though whether this feature survives intact beneath the ground is not confirmed.