On the east-facing slope of a low rise, the outline of a subcircular rath, roughly 34 metres north to south and 31 metres east to west, is barely readable in the ground. A scarp, the remnant of a fosse (a defensive ditch), and faint traces of an outer bank are all that remain of what was once an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, the kind of settlement that once numbered in the tens of thousands across Ireland.

A rath is a ringfort constructed primarily from earthen banks, used as a defended farmstead typically between around 500 and 1000 AD. They were the everyday domestic architecture of early medieval Ireland, built by farming families rather than kings or monks, and they survive in varying degrees of completeness across the country. This particular example has fared poorly. It has been almost entirely levelled, and a field wall, probably built centuries after the site was abandoned, cuts straight across the monument at both the east-northeast and west-southwest, the boundary logic of a later agricultural landscape overwriting the earlier one without ceremony.