A flat field of pasture sits on a gentle rise in the rolling landscape of County Wexford, and to any passing eye it looks like ordinary farmland. Beneath the grass, however, or at least according to the first detailed mapping of the area, lies the ghost of a ringfort, a circular earthwork enclosure of the kind that was once the standard unit of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, home to a farming family and their livestock, surrounded by an earthen bank and ditch that marked both territory and status.

The site appears on the 1839 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a circular enclosure roughly 35 metres in diameter, which places it at the smaller end of the ringfort scale. By the time it was mapped, a field bank running roughly northwest to southeast had already been laid across it, cutting through the southwestern perimeter. That intrusion, mundane and agricultural, is a common story for ringforts across Ireland. Thousands were levelled or built over during the land clearances and farm improvements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, their banks quarried for material or simply ploughed flat. This one survives in name, if not in form. Locally it is remembered as a raheen, an anglicisation of the Irish word for a small fort, a term that tends to cling to sites long after the earthworks themselves have gone.