From the outside, the bank rises to about 1.75 metres, enough to give it a quiet presence on the landscape; from within, it barely reaches 0.65 metres, a reminder of how much the surrounding ground level has shifted over centuries. What seals its strangeness is the interior, completely consumed by dense overgrowth, making the enclosed space feel almost deliberately sealed off from the present.

This is a rath, the most common type of ringfort found across Ireland, typically built between the sixth and tenth centuries as a farmstead for a single family or extended household. They were not military fortifications in any grand sense, but enclosed living spaces, their earthen banks offering protection for livestock and a degree of social status for the occupants. The Sheshiv example measures roughly 20 metres in diameter, placing it at the modest end of the scale. Encircling it is a fosse, a shallow defensive ditch, here still holding water, running to about a metre in depth and nearly two and a half metres wide. The combination of bank and waterlogged fosse would have formed a meaningful barrier in its time. The site was recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the national archaeological record in August 2011.

The ringfort sits within pasture on a slightly elevated patch of otherwise level ground, the kind of gentle rise that would have been valued in an agricultural landscape for drainage and visibility. Because the interior is entirely covered in dense vegetation, there is little to see once inside, and the experience is more one of reading the earthworks from the outside, walking the circuit of the bank and noting where the fosse still pools with water. Visiting in late autumn or winter, when surrounding vegetation has died back, will make the profile of the bank and ditch considerably easier to read against the surrounding fields.