What looks like an unremarkable undulation is in fact a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed settlement built across Ireland during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Farmers and their families lived within these circular enclosures, which served as farmsteads rather than military fortifications, though the bank and ditch provided a degree of security for livestock and household alike.

This particular example occupies level pasture at the base of a gentle north-facing slope, a typical situation for a rath, sheltered from prevailing winds and close to workable ground. The circular enclosure measures approximately forty metres in diameter. Its earthen bank rises about seventy centimetres on the interior side and a considerably more imposing one metre seventy-five centimetres when measured from the outside, with an external fosse, or ditch, roughly three metres wide and sixty centimetres deep running around it. The asymmetry between those two height measurements is a useful reminder of how these earthworks were constructed: material was dug from the fosse and piled inward to form the bank, so the external face naturally appears more pronounced. The survey, compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011, notes that the bank has been levelled along the northern to east-south-east arc, and that a gap of about one and a half metres remains in the bank at the west-south-west, which likely marks the original entrance.

The interior and most of the enclosing bank are now covered in dense overgrowth, which gives the site a slightly neglected quality but also helps preserve what survives beneath. Visitors approaching across the pasture should look for the subtle change in ground level where the fosse begins, as the vegetation can make the outer edge harder to read than the inner bank. The entrance gap at the west-south-west is probably the clearest surviving feature, and standing within it gives a reasonable sense of the original scale of the enclosure. There is no formal access or signage, so this is the kind of site best sought with an Ordnance Survey map or a georeferenced mapping app, and the usual courtesies around farmland apply.