A rath is a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built and occupied primarily during the early medieval period in Ireland, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Most were home to a single farming family of some status, their livestock kept safe within the enclosure at night. This one measures 37 metres in diameter and survives in fair condition, which is not something that can be said of all such monuments in agricultural land.

What makes this example structurally interesting is its double-bank construction. Rather than a single earthen rampart, it has two concentric banks with a fosse, or ditch, running between them. This arrangement would have offered a more substantial barrier than a simple single-bank enclosure, and is generally associated with a higher-status or more carefully defended site, though the notes do not name any particular family or historical figure connected to it. The outer bank remains clearly visible along its western, northern, and east-north-eastern arc. A causewayed entrance gap survives at the south-west, where a raised crossing over the fosse would have allowed access into the interior. The enclosure has not escaped the long history of farming around it entirely unscathed; a field wall cuts across the monument at two points, at the east-north-east and west-north-west, a reminder of how generations of land division have quietly sliced through far older boundaries.