The site is a rath, the Irish term for a roughly circular earthen ringfort, a form of enclosed farmstead that was common across Ireland during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Most were home to a single farming family and their livestock, defined by an earthen bank and an outer ditch, or fosse, designed as much to signal social status as to provide any serious defence.

This particular example is subcircular in plan, measuring approximately 34 metres on its north-northeast to south-southwest axis. The surrounding fosse survives all the way around the monument, which is notable given how much has been lost elsewhere on the site. The bank itself is only partially legible, remaining visible along the eastern, southern, and northern arcs, while the northwestern and east-northeastern sections have been interrupted by a field wall that cuts directly through the monument. That wall tells its own quiet story about how post-medieval agricultural reorganisation gradually overrode older boundaries, absorbing prehistoric and early medieval earthworks into new patterns of land use without much ceremony.