This is a rath, a type of ringfort that was once among the most common features of the Irish countryside. Ringforts served as enclosed farmsteads during the early medieval period, typically encircled by earthen banks and ditches to define territory and offer some protection for a household and its livestock. Thousands survive across Ireland, though many have been ploughed out or built over. This one has not.

The site was recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the national record in August 2011. The circular enclosure measures twenty-eight metres in diameter, defined by a scarped edge rising roughly one metre in height and spanning about three and a half metres in width. Beyond that bank lies an external fosse, a shallow ditch running to four metres wide and just over a third of a metre deep, which would originally have reinforced the sense of boundary around the interior. That fosse is now partially obscured by overgrowth, which makes the full circuit of the earthwork a little harder to read from ground level than it might once have been. The interior itself remains level and largely under grass, though scrub has begun to encroach in places.

The site sits in ordinary agricultural land, so access depends on permission from the landowner. Because the earthworks are low and the surrounding pasture is flat, the rath reads more clearly in low winter light or in early morning, when raking shadows pick out the scarped edge and the depression of the fosse. Visitors with an interest in early medieval settlement patterns will find the proportions here fairly typical of a single-banked rath, useful for understanding the form even if the surface details are now modest. The overgrowth around the fosse is worth noting before you visit; the ditch that once defined the outer edge of the enclosure is there, but you may need to move slowly around the perimeter to trace it fully.