It is not. What appears to be a gentle mound is in fact the surviving remains of a rath, a type of ringfort built from earth rather than stone, and once the enclosed farmstead of an early medieval Irish family, most likely dating from somewhere between the sixth and tenth centuries.

The dimensions recorded here give a sense of modest but deliberate construction. The enclosed area measures roughly 35.7 metres north to south and 36.6 metres east to west, making it a near-perfect circle of just over a third of a hectare inside the bank. That bank, built from the earth dug out to form the surrounding fosse (a ditch running from the north-east to the south-west), still stands to an internal height of around 0.8 metres, with a shallower exterior face of about 0.35 metres. The fosse itself reaches a depth of 1.8 metres, which would have given the whole enclosure a far more imposing profile in its original, freshly cut form. A formal entrance four metres wide opens to the north-west, and a separate gap of three metres on the east-south-east side suggests either a secondary access point or a later breach in the bank. Ringforts of this kind were not primarily military structures; they functioned as enclosed homesteads, protecting livestock and household from wolves and opportunistic theft rather than organised attack.