A shallow scarp in the earth, the ghost of two low banks, a pair of barely legible ditches; and then, bisecting the whole, two sets of parallel field walls that have quietly erased whatever lay between them. The monument has been farmed over so thoroughly that the middle section has vanished from the surface entirely.

What once stood here was a multivallate ringfort, also known as a rath, which is the Irish term for a circular enclosure, typically of early medieval date, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches and used as a defended farmstead. The "multivallate" part means it had more than one such bank and fosse, a fosse being a ditch, which would have placed it among the more substantial examples of its type. This one measured roughly 35 metres in diameter and sat on a gently east-facing slope, a common choice for such sites, which were often positioned to catch morning light and allow a clear view across the surrounding land. The two surviving arcs of bank and ditch run from the north-east to the south-east and from the west-south-west to the north-west, framing the emptiness between them where the field walls now run. It is a familiar story in the Irish landscape: the gradual conversion of ancient enclosures into agricultural ground, one generation's boundary wall pressed through another's entirely.