It is the discovery, made by a Mr L. Price, of a pillar stone bearing an ogham inscription buried within the earthen bank. Ogham is an early medieval script, most commonly found on standing stones, in which letters are represented by a series of notches and strokes cut along a central line. The inscription reads VOTI, a fragment that has been catalogued by the scholar R. A. S. Macalister. That a carved stone of this kind ended up incorporated into the bank of a rath, a ringfort defined by a raised earthen and stone rampart with an outer fosse or ditch, suggests a long and layered occupation of the site, with earlier material absorbed, deliberately or otherwise, into later construction.

The fort itself sits on a pronounced south-east-facing slope in forestry and is unusually complex in its internal arrangement. A low east-west stone bank divides the interior in two, with the southern half sitting noticeably higher than the surrounding ground. In the north-west quadrant there are the foundations of two drystone structures, each roughly five metres square, and nearby a D-shaped area defined by a steep scarp topped with a stone bank, alongside a smaller rectangular enclosure. These internal subdivisions are more elaborate than is typical for a simple agricultural rath, and no clear entrance has been identified, which adds to the site's slightly inscrutable character. The outer bank survives only to the south, suggesting either differential erosion or an original design that concentrated its defences in that direction.