A ringfort, or rath, once stood here, one of the thousands of roughly circular enclosures built across Ireland during the early medieval period, typically between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and used as farmsteads by families of varying status. Most were defined by one or more earthen banks with an external ditch, the fosse, enclosing a domestic space. This one has been levelled to the point where the ground barely registers its former shape, yet the geometry persists: an oval area measuring roughly 46 metres east to west and nearly 44 metres north to south, still faintly bounded by a rise no more than fifteen centimetres high along its northern, eastern, and southern edges.

The site was clearly more substantial once. The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded it as a hachured circular enclosure with a diameter of around fifty metres, already partially absorbed into the surrounding field boundary on its western side. What remains on the ground suggests the fort originally had at least two banks. The inner bank survives as that barely perceptible rise, with a shallow outer fosse still traceable. A second bank, slightly more pronounced at around twenty-five centimetres, runs from the north-east toward the south-south-west, with its own outer ditch to the south-east, reaching a depth of about thirty centimetres. A gap of roughly five and a half metres breaks through the inner bank on the north-north-west side, which is likely the original entrance. From there, a shallow depression runs southward for over sixteen metres into the interior of the enclosure, possibly the trace of a former pathway or drainage feature associated with activity inside the rath. Taken together, these details suggest a bivallate fort, one with two concentric banks, a form often associated with slightly higher social standing than the simpler single-bank enclosure.