Which, at some point in the agricultural history of north Cork, someone evidently did. The rest of the monument survives in pasture on a south-west-facing slope, and what remains is a reasonably legible example of a rath, the earthen variety of ringfort that served as a defended farmstead enclosure during the early medieval period in Ireland, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries.

The surviving circuit measures 34 metres east to west and is enclosed by an earthen bank that still stands to an internal height of around 0.94 metres and an external height of 1.3 metres along its south-east to north arc. Beyond that bank runs a fosse, the external ditch that would originally have reinforced the enclosure's defensive profile, here surviving to a depth of 0.6 metres on the intact section. To the north and around to the south-east, both bank and fosse have been levelled by ploughing, though the outline of the ditch remains visible as a soilmark in the disturbed ground, a ghostly trace that aerial photography or the right angle of low winter light can still pick out. To the west there is a gap of about 11 metres in the bank, likely the original entrance, where a slight external scarp survives and the fosse has been filled in over time. A later, more pragmatic opening, a cattle-gap just one metre wide, has been made to the south-east. The interior is saucer-shaped and slightly raised at its centre, a characteristic profile found in many earthen ringforts across the country.