A rath, as these earthwork ringforts are commonly known, was a roughly circular enclosure built during the early medieval period, typically serving as a farmstead or the defended residence of a local family of some standing. What gives this particular example its quiet interest is the combination of scale, condition, and the small detail of its entrance.

The enclosure is broadly circular, measuring roughly 40 metres north to south and 36.5 metres east to west. It is ringed by a substantial earthen bank, and around the eastern, southern, and western sides a shallow external fosse, or ditch, survives. A fosse of this kind was dug to provide material for the bank and to add a further obstacle to anyone approaching the enclosure from outside. On the northern side, a shallow fosse appears to persist between the bank and the existing field boundary, suggesting the medieval landscape has been quietly absorbed into the later agricultural one rather than obliterated by it. The entrance, positioned to the south-west and measuring five metres in width, retains some stone facing, a detail that hints at a degree of care in its original construction and sets it apart from the many ringforts where such finishing has long since collapsed or been robbed for later building.