It is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built in early medieval Ireland, typically between the sixth and tenth centuries. Thousands survive across the country in varying degrees of ruin, but each one represents what was once a working household, its livestock, its people, and its daily routines enclosed within an earthen bank.

This particular example measures approximately thirty metres east to west and twenty-eight metres north to south, making it a modest but legible example of the form. The defining bank is in fair condition, best preserved along the southern and western arcs, where the earthwork still holds its shape against the weathering of centuries. At the north-east, a gap roughly ten metres wide interrupts the circuit. Whether this was the original entrance, later widened by agricultural use, or a collapse of some other kind is not recorded, though entrances on the eastern side were common in ringfort construction. The site was noted by Knox as early as 1918, placing it within a long tradition of antiquarian attention to the archaeology of Connacht.