The ground gives no hint, the grass shows no rise or dip worth pausing over. Yet from the air, the earth tells a different story entirely. A double-ringed enclosure resolves itself out of the field in the form of a cropmark, the kind of ghostly outline that only becomes legible when drought or differential growth causes buried features to express themselves through the colour and height of whatever is growing above them.

The site is a rath, the Irish term for a roughly circular earthwork enclosure typically dating from the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, and associated with farmstead settlement. This particular example is bivallate, meaning it was defined by two concentric banks and their accompanying ditches, known as fosses. The interior measures approximately 32 metres in diameter, with the outer enclosure extending to around 50 metres. Unusually, the inner fosse appears to have been cut wider than the outer, reversing what might be expected. The whole thing sits towards the crest of a low hillock, a positioning common to ringforts, which were often sited to allow a degree of visibility across the surrounding land. All of this is known not from excavation but from a single aerial photograph, which captured the cropmark geometry of a structure that has otherwise been entirely absorbed into the working landscape.