A rath, to use the Irish term, typically consisted of one or more concentric earthen ramparts defining a circular farmstead; a bivallate example, with two such banks, suggests a site of some local importance. What makes this particular one quietly melancholy is the completeness of its disappearance. It is no longer there.

The site has a strange cartographic history. It does not appear on the Ordnance Survey maps produced in 1841 to 1842, which is unusual given the general thoroughness of that survey, but it does show up on the 1916 edition, suggesting it was either overlooked initially or had become more visible or better documented by the early twentieth century. As late as 1974, the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photography programme captured it clearly from the air, the twin banks and the trace of a small stream running through the enclosure in a roughly northwest to southeast direction still legible as cropmarks or earthworks in the landscape. At some point between that survey and the present, the site was levelled entirely, and only faint disturbances in the ground now indicate where the banks once stood.