This is a rath, the most common type of ringfort in Ireland, built during the early medieval period as an enclosed farmstead. The enclosure here measures approximately 33 metres north-west to south-east and 30 metres north-east to south-west, a modest but telling footprint. What makes it quietly worth attention is the preservation of its layered defences: an earthen bank, a wide shallow fosse (a defensive ditch cut around the perimeter), a low outer bank, and beyond that a further external fosse.

The site sits 160 metres south-east of a stream that marks the boundary with the neighbouring townland of Grange, a detail that hints at how carefully early medieval communities mapped and used the landscape around them. The outer bank curves from west through north to north-east, and there is a possible entrance gap at the north-east, a typical orientation for ringforts. The interior is uneven, with a noticeable rise in the south-west sector, which may indicate the remains of a structure or accumulated occupation debris beneath the ground surface. A post-1700 field fence cuts across the site from east to south-west, a reminder that later agricultural reorganisation paid little regard to what lay underfoot.