It is not. What appears to be a gentle rise is in fact a rath, an early medieval ringfort, its concentric banks and ditches engineered to enclose and protect a farmstead, most likely sometime between the sixth and tenth centuries.

The structure is a bivallate rath, meaning it was defended by two banks rather than the single bank more commonly encountered across Ireland. Between those banks runs a fosse, the ditch excavated to provide the material for raising the banks above it. At around 45 metres in diameter, the enclosure is roughly typical for a site of this type. The inner bank and its accompanying fosse remain visible all the way around the circuit, which is a reasonable state of preservation for a monument that has been sitting in a working agricultural landscape for well over a thousand years. The outer bank has fared less well; it can be traced from the south-south-east, continuing west and around to the north-west, but from the north-north-west to the north-north-east it has been absorbed into a later field boundary, the kind of incremental loss that erases ringforts gradually rather than all at once. A gap approximately five metres wide at the south-south-east may mark the original entrance to the enclosure, though this is not certain.