It is not especially large, not dramatically preserved, and easily overlooked from a distance. Yet that ordinariness is itself the point. This is exactly the kind of site that once covered Ireland in its thousands, the everyday signature of early medieval farming life, now reduced to a slight swell in a grazed field surrounded by furze and briars.

The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was typically a circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, used as a farmstead and family residence during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. This example measures approximately 35.5 metres north to south and 35 metres east to west, making it a fairly typical specimen in terms of scale. Its enclosing feature is a scarped edge rather than a raised bank, essentially a cut or trimmed slope dropping away from the interior, with an external fosse, a defensive ditch, running around the outside. That fosse is around 5.4 metres wide and half a metre deep. The scarp is best preserved along the northern to south-eastern arc, while the western side has become waterlogged, and furze has grown thickly enough to largely obscure the fosse in that area. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011.

Accessing the site today requires some patience with the terrain. The surrounding land is rough, marshy pasture, and the western approach in particular will likely be wet underfoot. A field boundary thick with briars skirts the outer edge of the fosse on most sides, though there is a gap of about two metres in that boundary at the east-south-east, which offers the clearest point of approach. Once inside, the interior slopes gently downward toward the south-west, a detail worth noting as it influences where water collects. Field boundaries from later agricultural use abut the enclosure at several points, including the west-south-west, north, and north-north-east, giving the whole site a slightly hemmed-in quality. The furze on the western side will be densest in late winter and spring before it flowers, though the yellow bloom does at least make the extent of the fosse easier to read from a distance.