Measuring roughly five metres north to south and six metres east to west, the structure is modest in scale, yet its position tells a quiet story about how people once organised their living space within an enclosed settlement.

A rath, sometimes called a ringfort, is a roughly circular earthwork enclosure, typically defined by one or more banks and ditches, and represents one of the most common monument types in the Irish landscape. Most date to the early medieval period, broadly the sixth to tenth centuries, and functioned as farmsteads for families of some local standing. What makes this particular site notable is the presence of a rectangular hut foundation adjoining the east-south-east bank of the enclosure itself. Rectangular stone structures within raths are not unknown, but their survival as visible foundations is relatively uncommon, since many such buildings were of timber or turf and have left little trace. The choice to build in stone, and to situate the structure directly against the interior bank, suggests the bank itself may have served as one wall of the building, a practical arrangement that reduced the amount of construction required and provided a ready-made windbreak.