The trees were planted around the rim of a rath, a type of ringfort built during the early medieval period in Ireland, typically between the fifth and twelfth centuries, as an enclosed farmstead for a single family or small community. This one sits in level pasture, barely announcing itself: a slightly raised circular area roughly thirty metres across, bounded by a low earthen bank that has spent centuries quietly shrinking into the ground.

When Bowman recorded the site in 1934, the bank still stood at around five feet high and the enclosure measured thirty-eight yards in diameter, sitting on land then belonging to a J. O'Connor. Even then, the fosse, the external ditch that would originally have reinforced the bank as a defensive or boundary feature, had already been filled in, erasing what was once a defining element of the structure. By the time more recent surveys caught up with it, the bank had eroded further, down to under a metre on the interior face. The interior itself slopes gently to the north-east and has, at some point, been put to use as a dumping ground, which is an unfortunately common fate for low-profile archaeological sites in working farmland. The trees planted along the bank, widely spaced and now well established, are the most visible sign that someone at some stage recognised this circular patch of ground as something worth marking, even if informally.