The site is listed as a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was a type of enclosed farmstead used throughout early medieval Ireland, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches encircling a dwelling area. Thousands of them survive across the country in varying states of preservation. This one does not.

What makes the site quietly curious is the paper trail it leaves. It appears on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1841 to 1842 and again on the 1898 revision, which tells us that at least into the late nineteenth century something was visible on the ground, enough for surveyors to record and mark it. The Tyshe river runs east to west just to the north, suggesting the original enclosure was positioned with some deliberate relationship to the water, as was common with ringfort placement. At some point between the late Victorian mapping and the present day, whatever earthwork remained was lost, likely to agricultural activity, land improvement, or simply the slow flattening that comes with centuries of ploughing.