A ringfort, or rath, is a type of enclosed settlement typical of early medieval Ireland, usually consisting of a raised circular bank and an outer ditch, known as a fosse, originally surrounding a farmstead or homestead. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is the way successive Ordnance Survey maps, from 1842 through to 1938, each capture a slightly different picture of its survival, the western half diminishing from a full hachured enclosure to a scarp with a fosse to the south-west, as if the monument were edging gradually out of legibility.

What survives on the ground today is fragmentary but still present in the landscape. An arc of scarp rising to around 1.65 metres runs from south to north, and a substantial outer earthen bank, reaching an internal height of approximately 1.7 metres, extends from the south-west around to the west-north-west. A stream running along a field boundary skirts the bank to the west, and the townland boundary itself follows the same western edge, suggesting the ringfort may have been used as a convenient territorial marker long after its original function was forgotten. The full circular form of the enclosure, roughly 25 metres in diameter, is visible not from the ground but from the air, where aerial photography has caught the cropmark of the fosse cutting across the field. Around 60 metres to the east runs an ancient road, a reminder that this was once a more connected point in the landscape than the quiet pasture around it now suggests.