A rath is a type of ringfort, a roughly circular enclosure defined by earthen banks and ditches, built during the early medieval period and used as a defended farmstead or the residence of a local chieftain. Thousands of them survive across Ireland in various states of preservation. This one does not survive at all.

Around 1968, the site was levelled and a piggery built in its place. The earthworks that had endured for perhaps a thousand years or more were gone within a season. What makes the location notable even in its absence is its position: set atop a ridge with extensive views, and situated to the northeast of a second, similar ringfort. Two such sites in close proximity is not unusual in the Irish landscape, where clusters of ringforts sometimes reflect family groupings or territorial boundaries, but the pairing here adds a layer of significance to what is now an unremarkable patch of agricultural land. One of the pair survives; the other is a piggery floor.