The northern side of the enclosure was deliberately raised to compensate for the natural drop in the slope, a small engineering decision that quietly reveals how much thought went into what might otherwise look like a simple mound in a field.

This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish countryside. Ringforts are roughly circular enclosures defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, built predominantly during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, and used as farmsteads by families of varying social rank. This particular example is subcircular, measuring 26 metres across in both directions, and its enclosing bank survives to an internal height of 0.4 metres and an external height of 1.5 metres on the northern side, where it is best preserved. The eastern side retains only a low, denuded remnant, and the southern side survives as an inward-facing scarp, a step cut into the slope rather than a built-up bank. Fragments of stone facing are still visible on both the northern bank and the southern scarp, suggesting the earthwork was originally revetted in stone to hold its shape. The western side has been absorbed into a substantial field boundary running from south to northwest, and no surface trace of the enclosure survives beyond it, with a drain cut along the eastern edge of that same boundary. Numerous gaps have been worn through the bank over time, the slow work of grazing animals and passing feet across many centuries.