That collision of the prehistoric and the agricultural is quietly typical of how ringforts survive in the Irish countryside, absorbed into working land and easy to overlook unless you know what you are looking at.

The enclosure is a rath, a type of ringfort defined by an earthen bank and internal scarp rather than stone walling, and it sits on a low hill in open grassland. Its outline is roughly subcircular, measuring approximately 48 metres east to west and 40.5 metres north to south. A raised bank survives along the arc running from east around to the south-west, and again from the north-west to the north-east; elsewhere the boundary survives as a scarp, meaning the ground simply drops away at the edge of the enclosed area rather than rising into a distinct mound. Raths of this kind were typically built during the early medieval period, functioning as enclosed farmsteads for a single family or small settlement, the bank and any accompanying ditch providing a degree of security for people and livestock alike. This one is described as being in fair condition, which in practice means the essential form is still readable, even if the north-western bank has been compromised by the silage pit cut into its outer face. A laneway runs along the monument from the south-west to the west-north-west, tracing the kind of boundary relationship between ancient earthwork and later field infrastructure that is common across the Irish midlands and west.