Less than 230 metres to the east-northeast lies another ringfort entirely, suggesting that this corner of Carrownagarry, in north County Galway, was once a settled and organised landscape rather than empty bog-edge territory.

The monument is a rath, the most common type of early medieval enclosure in Ireland, typically built as a farmstead between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. A rath consists of a roughly circular area enclosed by an earthen bank, with a fosse, or ditch, dug around the outside to provide material for the bank and to mark the boundary of the household territory within. This example measures twenty-nine metres in diameter. The bank survives along a sweep from the south, around through the west, and up to the northeast, and the fosse remains visible along the southwestern and western arc. The northeastern to southern sector tells a different story: quarrying has eaten into the monument from that direction, cutting away at the very portion of the circuit that once faced outward toward the neighbouring ringfort. What remains is enough to read the original form, though just barely on the damaged side.