Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when constructed from earth rather than stone, were the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth century. Most were home to a single family and their livestock, the enclosing bank and ditch providing as much a statement of status as any genuine defensive function. This one, on a gentle north-facing slope near Ballyhahill, has been quietly subsiding and silting for perhaps a millennium.

The earthwork measures roughly twenty-five metres in diameter. Its enclosing element shifts character as it runs around the circuit: from the south-west to north-north-east it presents as a conventional earthen bank, standing about thirty-five centimetres above the interior surface and nearly a metre above the exterior ground level. From there round to the south-east, the boundary transitions into a scarped edge, where the natural ground has been cut back rather than built up, leaving a near-vertical face around eighty-five centimetres high and about two metres wide. An external fosse, the shallow ditch that typically accompanied such banks and provided the raw material for their construction, survives along the north-west to south-east arc, though a later field boundary running north to south has truncated it on the western side. That same pattern of later agricultural activity encroaches elsewhere: a field boundary running from the south-east to south-west curves noticeably to accommodate the older enclosure, suggesting that even generations of farmers who had no idea what the earthwork was understood instinctively that it deserved some deference. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded to the national monuments database in August 2011.

The interior of the rath is today completely obscured by dense overgrowth, so visitors hoping to read the ground surface will be disappointed. The enclosing elements are most legible from outside, where the external scarp and the remnant fosse give a reasonable impression of the original plan. A trackway recorded immediately to the south of the monument may be of some antiquity. Access is across private farmland, so permission from the landowner should be sought before approaching. The site carries no formal visitor infrastructure, and the surrounding pasture can be wet underfoot in any season.