That small accommodation made by a modern access road tells you something useful about this ringfort near Ballyeawood in County Limerick: it is still very much in the way, still occupying the same ground it always did, even if the pasture that covers it now gives little obvious sign of what lies beneath.

A rath, to use the Irish term, is an early medieval farmstead enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, the everyday dwelling of a farming family somewhere between roughly the third and tenth centuries. This one is nearly circular, measuring 39.5 metres on the north to south axis and 37.5 metres east to west, which puts it within the typical range for a single-ringfort enclosure. The earthen bank survives to an internal height of just 0.25 metres, though it rises more impressively on the outer face to about 1.05 metres. Beyond that bank runs a fosse, a defensive ditch, 0.6 metres deep and 1.2 metres wide, still waterlogged in places. Stones have been dumped along the western section of the bank at some point, possibly cleared from nearby fields and piled there for convenience. The causeway entrance, 3.2 metres wide, sits at the southern side, which is a common placement for ringfort entrances. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011.

The fort sits in level pasture immediately south of a public road, with the avenue to an adjacent dwelling running along its eastern side. It is that avenue which narrows the fosse slightly as it kinks around the outer edge from east to south-south-east, a quiet sign of how old boundaries and new ones negotiate space over time. Field boundaries running on a north to south axis abut the outer edge of the fosse at the west-south-west and north-west, meaning the ringfort has effectively become a fixed point around which the surrounding land has been divided. The bank itself is heavily masked by vegetation, so the earthworks are easier to read in winter when growth is low, and the waterlogged fosse is most apparent after wet weather. Access would require permission from the landowner, as the site lies within working farmland.