What remains is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed settlement typically dating from the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, when they served as farmsteads or the defended homesteads of local families and minor lords. This one measures approximately thirty metres in diameter, a modest size, and only the western section of its enclosing bank survives with any clarity.

Local knowledge adds a possible further dimension to the site. There are reports of a souterrain associated with the rath, a souterrain being an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, often built beneath or adjacent to a ringfort and used variously for storage, refuge, or concealment. These features are not uncommon companions to raths across Ireland, though they can be difficult to locate or confirm without excavation. The association here remains tentative, passed down through local tradition rather than verified through any formal investigation, which gives the site a quality common to many such places: a suggestion of something more, without resolution.