It is easy to mistake for a natural feature of the landscape, a slight swelling in the ground, but the geometry gives it away. The site is roughly thirty metres across, defined by a scarp about a metre high with a levelled bank running along its upper edge some three and a half metres wide. This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish countryside. Ringforts were typically enclosed farmsteads, built and occupied from roughly the sixth to the twelfth centuries, where a family and their livestock lived within a bank and ditch that offered both a degree of physical protection and a visible marker of social standing.

This particular example sits at the north-eastern edge of its low rise, in ground that stays flat and open all the way to the coast. Whatever entrance once broke the circuit of the bank, its position is no longer readable in the surviving earthwork. The interior, like the approach to it, has been absorbed into working farmland, leaving the site quietly present without announcing itself.