What looks like a modest grassy ridge is, in fact, the eroded remains of a ringfort, one of the thousands of such enclosures that once dotted early medieval Ireland. A rath, as this type of earthwork is commonly called, was typically a circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead and settlement during the early medieval period, roughly 500 to 1000 AD. This one at Bohard has been worn down considerably, but it has not entirely disappeared.

When the Ordnance Survey mapped this area in 1841, the enclosure was clear enough to be recorded on the six-inch sheet as a defined embanked circle. Since then, agricultural activity has done what centuries of weather alone could not quite finish. The earthen bank now survives to an internal height of only around ten centimetres, though the external face still stands at roughly fifty-five centimetres, suggesting the outer profile has held up better against whatever gradual levelling has occurred. The fosse, the shallow ditch that ran around the outside of the bank, survives in two arcs, from the north-west around to the north-east, and from the east around to the south-west, but a field boundary has been built directly along the line of the fosse on its south-west to north-west stretch, absorbing part of its archaeology into the working landscape. The enclosure measures approximately twenty-two metres north to south and twenty-four metres east to west. Denis Power compiled the record, uploaded to the national inventory in August 2011.

The site sits in level pasture, which means the surviving earthworks are subtle and require some patience to read. The interior is flat and grassed over, giving little visual drama, but standing at the outer edge and looking back across the circle makes the dimensions feel surprisingly coherent for something so reduced. The overlapping field boundary is worth noting, as it is a reminder of how often later farming arrangements were laid directly over earlier ones, sometimes preserving, sometimes obscuring. Access would depend on the landowner's permission, as is standard for ringforts in agricultural use across the country.