It would be easy to walk past without registering what it is. The slightly raised ground, measuring roughly 22 metres across, is all that visibly remains of a ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish landscape. Thousands of these enclosures were built during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and most served as enclosed farmsteads for a single family or household. A ringfort of this kind, formed by an earthen bank rather than a stone wall, is more specifically called a rath.

The enclosing bank here is narrow, around 3.7 metres wide, and rises only about 0.3 metres above the interior, which makes it a particularly low-profile example. There is no visible fosse, the external ditch that typically accompanies a rath and from which the upcast material was piled to form the bank. Its absence at ground level may reflect centuries of agricultural erosion and infilling rather than an original design choice, though some raths were built without one. The original entrance is no longer recognisable, and the bank has been broken in several places, at the west, northwest, and northeast, where livestock have moved through over generations, gradually wearing down what little definition remained.