The two have simply grown around each other, and the boundary of a field to the south of the enclosure follows the same logic, absorbing another section of the original bank into the working geometry of the farm.

A ringfort, or rath, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more banks and ditches, typically dating from the early medieval period, though many were in use across a broader span of Irish prehistory. They served as farmsteads or defensible homesteads for families of some local standing. This particular example sits on a rise in pasture land and takes a broadly oval shape, measuring around 30 metres north to south and 34 metres east to west. The enclosing bank is built of earth and stone, about 3.6 metres wide, and still stands to an external height of roughly 1.8 metres in places. Breaks in the bank at the south-east and north-east correspond to the points where the farm lane passes through, giving a working sense of how the structure has been quietly repurposed rather than demolished. The interior, level underfoot, has grown over with a dense tangle of hawthorn, hazel, and blackthorn scrub.

The scrub itself is worth noting. Hawthorn in particular carries a long association in Irish folk tradition with otherworldly or protected spaces, and its tendency to colonise undisturbed ringfort interiors is well documented across the country. Whether that association has preserved the interior from clearance here is impossible to say, but the result is a densely vegetated enclosure that reads, from outside the bank, as a low thicket rising from the pasture, its good southward views still intact around it.