It is not a dramatic ruin or a towering monument, but a rath, the commonest type of early medieval settlement in Ireland, and yet no two are quite alike in their detail. This one measures just over sixty metres across and retains an earthen bank still standing to a height of around one and a half metres, with a shallow external fosse, or ditch, cut to about a metre deep on the outside. A scarp, a natural or cut slope in the ground, runs along the western side, and on the southern arc, small upright boulders have been set to form an outer facing to the bank, a detail that suggests some care in the original construction.

Raths were typically the enclosed farmsteads of early Christian Ireland, in use roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, though many were built on sites with older significance. The bank and fosse combination served less as serious military defence and more as a marker of status and a boundary against livestock and opportunistic theft. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is the stonework along the southern perimeter, since most raths of this type rely entirely on earth and turf for their enclosing bank, and the incorporation of upright boulders into the outer face points to a builder who either had good stone to hand or wanted the structure to project a certain solidity. Inside the enclosure, two mounds of field clearance stones have accumulated over the centuries, the product of later farmers lifting rocks from nearby ground and depositing them somewhere that was already, in their minds, set apart from productive land.