This is a rath, the most common monument type in the Irish landscape, yet one that tends to go unnoticed precisely because it looks, at a glance, like a natural feature. A rath is a ringfort, an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically defended by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and almost certainly home to a farming family of moderate status.

This particular example measures roughly 46 metres north to south and 44 metres east to west, making it a fairly substantial enclosure. It is defined by an earthen bank and a fosse, which is the ditch that runs alongside it, here recorded at about 0.9 metres deep. Beyond that, an external bank survives to a height of 1.2 metres along the northern and eastern sides, suggesting the site was built for a degree of security as well as social display. The entrance, on the south-east, takes the form of a causeway just over seven metres wide, wide enough to admit livestock as well as people, which aligns with the agricultural function these enclosures typically served. Inside, the ground bears the marks of cultivation ridges and what appears to be quarrying activity on the northern side, traces of how the space was used and altered over time. A modern field fence has been built along the outer bank to the north, a reminder of how living farmland and ancient monument often share the same ground in rural Ireland. The site sits approximately 300 metres north of a separate ringfort, so this stretch of high ground once supported at least two such enclosures within close proximity.