That kind of layering, old monument and newer agricultural geometry overlapping without ceremony, is remarkably common in the Irish landscape, though it rarely fails to reward a second look.

The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and, typically, an external ditch. Ringforts were built and occupied mainly during the early medieval period, broadly the fifth to twelfth centuries, and served as the enclosed farmsteads of the period, housing a family and their livestock within a defensible boundary. This particular example measures approximately 45 metres in diameter, which places it within the middle range of such monuments. Its defining bank survives in fair condition, though a field boundary running from the north-east to the south-east has been laid directly over part of it, and a second boundary running east to west sits immediately to the south. The enclosure has not been erased so much as incorporated, the older earthwork absorbed into a later pattern of land management without quite disappearing.