Somebody, at some point, drew an administrative line through the remains of a structure that was already ancient, suggesting the earthwork was so thoroughly absorbed into the landscape that later generations mapped around it rather than because of it.

The site is a rath, the Irish term for a roughly circular earthen enclosure, typically dating from the early medieval period and used as a defended farmstead. This one sits on a gentle slope in grassland and measures around 34 metres in diameter. It is defined by two banks with an intervening fosse, which is a ditch dug between the earthen ramparts as an additional defensive feature. Along the northern and eastern arc, the inner enclosing element survives as a scarp, a natural-looking but man-made slope, rather than a built-up bank. The outer bank retains something more deliberate: large limestone boulders set on edge as revetment, a technique used to stabilise and face an earthen structure in stone. This kind of stonework is relatively uncommon in rath construction and hints at a degree of effort, or perhaps local availability of good limestone, that set this enclosure apart. The entrance, still well-defined, faces east, an orientation common across Irish ringforts and likely connected to both practical and symbolic preferences. The site was noted by Neary in 1914.