What makes it quietly anomalous is not its size but the way the modern world has simply continued on top of it: a road and stone field fences cut across the southern edge, folding Early Medieval occupation into the grid of later agricultural life without ceremony or apparent awareness.

The enclosure measures approximately 39 metres north to south and 28 metres east to west, making it a modest but complete example of a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was the standard form of rural farmstead in Ireland roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. These were not military fortifications in any grand sense but enclosed homesteads, where a family and their livestock could shelter behind an earthen bank. Here that bank survives to a height of around 1.3 metres, with stone capping visible along the western to south-eastern arc. A narrow gap in the east-south-east, just one metre wide, marks what was likely the original entrance. Inside the enclosure, there are traces of what may be a circular hut site, measuring roughly 4.1 by 4.3 metres, the kind of small domestic structure that would once have sheltered the occupants of a single family farm. The combination of earthen bank, stone topping, entrance gap, and interior hut remains gives the site an unusual degree of legibility for something so thoroughly embedded in an ordinary agricultural setting.