These enclosures, known variously as raths or ringforts, were the farmsteads of early Christian Ireland, typically housing a family and their livestock within a defensive earthen bank and ditch. This one is modest in scale, a circular enclosure measuring twenty-two metres in diameter, but what makes it quietly interesting is the care its original builders took with an awkward piece of ground. The natural slope cuts across the south-western third of the interior, so the ground inside was deliberately raised and levelled to create a usable, even surface. Someone, at some point, went to considerable effort to make this place work.

The enclosing bank survives, though in a worn and reduced state, standing only about thirty centimetres above the interior and spreading roughly two and a half metres wide. On the south-east to south-west arc, the external fosse, a drainage and defensive ditch dug around the outside of the bank, is still readable, measuring four metres wide and around forty centimetres deep. Elsewhere the fosse has been filled in over the centuries, though its outline can still be traced from the north-west to the south-east. A gap of five metres in the south-western bank marks the original entrance, though it has been altered in more recent times, most likely to accommodate agricultural access. Running across the middle of the enclosure, a field wall oriented north-west to south-east divides the site into roughly equal halves, a reminder that working farmland has a habit of absorbing and reorganising whatever is already in it.