High ground, open views, a defensible perimeter: the logic has not changed, even if the people who once lived within it are long gone. A rath is a type of ringfort defined by an earthen bank rather than stone walls, typically enclosing a farmstead or small settlement and dating broadly to the early medieval period in Ireland, roughly the sixth to tenth centuries.

The bank here describes a circle roughly 31.2 metres in diameter, which is a fairly typical domestic scale. What makes this example slightly awkward to read in the landscape is what has happened to it since. A field boundary, planted with trees at some later date, cuts across the monument from the north-west, running through the east and round to the south, effectively borrowing the rath's bank as convenient agricultural infrastructure. This kind of appropriation was commonplace as farmland was reorganised and enclosed across centuries, and it means the original earthwork and a much later boundary now occupy the same ground in an overlapping muddle. The western half of the rath has also been levelled, leaving only slight rises at the south and north-west to suggest what the full circuit once looked like. What survives is described as being in fair condition, which, given the pressures on such sites, is something.