What makes this one in Ballymurragh East quietly worth attention is how well the basic logic of the structure has held together: the circular enclosure, the deliberate ditch, the single entrance with its causeway, all still legible in the landscape after perhaps fifteen hundred years of agricultural use.

A rath, as ringforts of this earthen type are generally known, was typically a farmstead enclosure of the early medieval period, the raised interior and surrounding fosse (a rock-cut or earthen ditch) serving to define territory and provide some protection for livestock. This example, recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the national record in August 2011, sits on a west-facing slope and is roughly circular, measuring 34 metres north to south and 35 metres east to west. The scarped edge, essentially the steeply cut inner face of the surrounding bank, survives to a height of 2.45 metres and a width of 3 metres in places. The external fosse reaches just over a metre in depth and nearly four metres across. The entrance, at the south-west, is about four metres wide and retains a causeway crossing the fosse, a detail that speaks to how a person or animal would have entered. The ditch is best preserved on its north-west to south-west arc. A marshy pond, roughly 35 by 45 metres, sits immediately outside the base of the scarp on the south-west to west-north-west side, and while its relationship to the original design of the site is not recorded in the notes, its presence alongside an entrance causeway is a detail worth turning over.

The interior is described as level, dry, and clear of overgrowth, which is not always the case with ringforts that have fallen out of use. Here the enclosure is put to work in winter as a fodder area, meaning the ground inside is reasonably accessible. The site sits in pasture, so visiting involves farmland, and the usual courtesies of seeking permission apply. A field boundary to the south-west of the site has been removed at some point, which may affect how the approach reads on older maps. The fosse is most clearly defined on the north-west and south-west sides, so that arc is the best place to get a sense of the original scale of the earthwork.