It is easy to walk past without registering what it is: the bank barely rises half a metre above the surrounding ground, its original stonework largely obscured, and the interior is an uneven tangle of overgrowth and dumped clearance material. Yet beneath all of that is a ringfort, or rath, of early medieval origin, a type of enclosed farmstead that was once among the most common features of the Irish countryside, with tens of thousands once dotting the landscape.

This particular example is univallate, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the two or three concentric rings seen at more elaborate sites. Its internal diameter runs about eighteen metres on a north-west to south-east axis, a modest but workable space for a small farming household. The bank, averaging around 1.5 metres wide, appears to have been drystone-faced at some point, given the quantity of loose stone scattered along its flanks, though much of that facing has long since collapsed or been removed. Along the north-east sector, a later drystone wall has been built directly on top of the original earthen bank, a common enough fate for old field boundaries pressed into agricultural reuse. The most intriguing feature lies at the north-west, where the blocked entrance to a souterrain sits at the external base of the bank. Souterrains are stone-lined underground passages or chambers, built during the early medieval period and typically associated with rath settlements, used variously for storage, refuge, or both. That this one has been blocked suggests either deliberate sealing at some point after the site fell out of use, or later disturbance during agricultural activity.