These informal burial sites, sometimes called cillíní, were used in Ireland for unbaptised infants and others who could not be interred in consecrated ground. They were often established in marginal or liminal places, and ancient ringforts, with their already charged status in the landscape, were a natural choice.

The rath itself is modest in scale, roughly 28 metres across east to west, defined by an earthen bank that survives to an external height of around half a metre. The southern arc of the enclosure has been cut through by a field boundary at some point, which is a common fate for earthworks that have been quietly farmed around for centuries. What makes this site a little more layered is the tree evidence: the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1846 marks a rectangular planted area at this location, and the 1894 edition shows trees within the interior of the rath itself. Planted enclosures within ringforts are sometimes associated with burial use, and the rectangular arrangement suggested by the earlier map hints at something more deliberate than natural growth. The rath does not stand in isolation either; two further ringforts lie within roughly 200 metres to the west and northwest, suggesting this gentle south-facing slope was a place of repeated, sustained settlement or significance across a long period.