A ringfort, or rath, is a type of circular enclosure typically built during the early medieval period in Ireland, used as a farmstead and enclosed by one or more earthen banks. This particular example was once roughly forty metres in diameter, but today there is almost nothing left to see. A low arc of bank survives along the north-western to north-eastern edge, and even that has been absorbed into a later field wall built directly on top of it. The rest has been levelled by centuries of agriculture and land management.

The site was documented by McCaffrey in 1952, who classified it as a much-denuded circular earthen fort and noted its condition even then. The description at that time was already one of significant loss. What the ridge once held, and how long the enclosure remained in active use before it began to erode into the surrounding farmland, is not recorded. The field wall that now overlies the surviving bank is a quiet illustration of how the Irish countryside tends to recycle its own past, with later generations unknowingly building on top of earlier ones.