Roughly thirty metres across, this is a ringfort in the most reduced sense possible: no earthen banks, no ditches, no upstanding walls, only the faint topographical memory of something that was once deliberately built and inhabited.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen or stone banks and used as a farmstead. This particular example appears on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which dates from the mid-nineteenth century, where it was recorded as a circular enclosure of around thirty metres in diameter. By the time of more recent survey work, even that much had largely gone. What survives is a slightly raised and roughly circular platform, edged with boulders, with a single tree growing at its centre. That tree is now perhaps the most visible marker of the site. What makes the location additionally interesting is its company: two further ringforts lie within roughly 150 metres, one to the north-west and another to the south-east. Clusters like this are not uncommon in the Irish landscape, suggesting that early farming communities sometimes settled in loose proximity, with individual enclosed farmsteads within sight of one another across open ground.