It is not dramatic in the way that towers or castle walls are dramatic, but there is something quietly insistent about it: a raised bank, a surrounding fosse, and the particular geometry of a life organised inside a defended enclosure, still legible in the ground after more than a thousand years.

The monument is a rath, the term used for an earthen ringfort, one of the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape. Raths were typically built between roughly the sixth and tenth centuries as enclosed farmsteads, the bank and external fosse, a shallow defensive ditch running around the outside, serving as much to define status and territory as to provide serious military protection. This example measures approximately 57 metres across its longest axis, running north-northeast to south-southwest, making it a substantial specimen. Its enclosing elements are not uniform: a proper earthen bank survives from the west-northwest around through the north to the east-southeast, while elsewhere the boundary is formed by a natural or modified scarp rather than a built-up bank. The fosse, meanwhile, survives from the south-southwest around through the north to the east-southeast. The whole thing is in fair condition, though a number of later field walls cut across the monument, a reminder of how agricultural land use has quietly rearranged the countryside around and through such sites over the centuries since they were last inhabited.