It is a cashel, which is to say a ringfort constructed primarily of stone rather than earth, though what survives here is modest enough that the distinction can be hard to appreciate from the ground. Ringforts of this kind were the basic unit of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically enclosing a farmstead and its associated buildings within a bank and ditch. This one is easy to overlook, and that is rather the point.

The site was recorded on the 1924 Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a roughly circular area, measuring approximately fifteen metres across in both directions, enclosed by a bank and an external fosse, which is essentially a defensive ditch dug around the perimeter. The record compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in April 2013 describes what remains in careful detail: a scarped edge, meaning a deliberately cut slope, running to the north-east, reaching about a metre in height and two and a half metres in width, alongside an earth-and-stone bank surviving to the south. That southern bank stands only about 0.7 metres above the interior ground surface and 0.5 metres above the exterior, with a width of just over a metre. Traces of the external fosse are still legible to the north, approximately 1.4 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep. Unspectacular measurements, perhaps, but enough to confirm this was once a deliberately constructed and bounded space.

The monument sits on a gentle south-facing slope, the kind of aspect that would have suited early settlement well, sheltered and with good light. Reaching it means crossing ordinary farmland, so permission from the landowner would be necessary before approaching. The scrub vegetation that now masks the site makes the earthworks genuinely difficult to read, and a visit in late autumn or winter, when growth dies back, would give a better chance of making out the surviving banks and fosse edges. What you are looking for is subtle: low ridges and shallow depressions in the grass and undergrowth, the faint geometry of something that was once a boundary.