This is a rath, the most common type of ringfort found across Ireland, typically built during the early medieval period as a defended farmstead enclosure. What makes this one worth a second look is a small engineering detail: the interior has been deliberately raised on its southern side to level out the ground against the natural fall of the hillslope. It is a practical solution, unshowy and easy to miss, but it speaks to the care that went into the original construction.

The enclosure measures roughly 35.5 metres in diameter, defined by an earthen bank still standing to a maximum external height of about 1.5 metres. A note recorded by Hartnett in 1939 adds a curious biographical detail: at some point between the early medieval period and the mid-twentieth century, the interior had been planted with fir trees. That planting is long gone now, and the site sits under pasture, the trees replaced by grass and whatever grazes on it. The agricultural life of the landscape has simply continued around and over the monument, as it has done at so many similar sites across Munster.