It is the kind of place that rewards a second glance: what looks from a distance like a slightly elevated field turns out, on closer inspection, to be a well-preserved rath, the term for a ringfort of the early medieval period, typically built as an enclosed farmstead between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries.

The fort was already named on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1838 and again on the 1929 edition, which at least establishes how long it has been recognised as a distinct feature in the landscape. Its structure is unusually legible. A raised circular interior, roughly 24 metres north to south and 25.5 metres east to west, is defined by an earthen bank, then a fosse (a surrounding ditch), and beyond that an outer bank. The measurements recorded are precise enough to give a real sense of the site's presence: the main outer face of the earthen bank still stands nearly 2.8 metres high on the western side. That is a substantial earthwork, and the enclosing elements remain well defined. The original entrance was at the south-east, a gap of roughly 2.5 metres that has since eroded into a break nearly three times that width. Traces of a causeway survive across the fosse, with a corresponding gap in the outer bank. Inside, the ground is level and grassy, and along the northern interior edge there are remnants of what may be a sub-rectangular structure, possibly the footprint of an early house built against the inner face of the bank for shelter or support.