This is a rath, a type of enclosed farmstead built during the early medieval period, typically between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Such enclosures were once the most common form of settlement across Ireland, yet most have been ploughed away, built over, or quietly erased. This one survives, at least in part, defined by a scarp, an intervening fosse (a ditch running between the inner and outer elements), and an outer bank, together forming the classic defensive and social boundary of a small farming household of the period.

The rath measures roughly 36 metres in diameter and is recorded as being in fair condition, which is to say it retains its essential shape without being especially well preserved. The southeastern section tells a more complicated story. Field-clearance rubble has been dumped there over time, piling up against the very banks and ditches the structure depends on for its form, and a later field wall has been built directly over the outer bank. These are common fates for earthworks in agricultural landscapes: the same effort that kept surrounding fields workable gradually cannibalised the archaeology at their edges. The result is a monument that is partly legible, partly absorbed into the more recent geometry of the land.