It is, in fact, the remains of a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, one of the most common monument types in the Irish countryside and yet still frequently overlooked. These were enclosed farmsteads, typically built between roughly 500 and 1000 AD, where a family would have lived within a circular bank and ditch for both security and status. This particular example is modest but legible: an earthen enclosure measuring approximately 37 metres north to south and just under 36 metres east to west, sitting on a gently west-facing slope just below the brow of a low ridge.

The site was recorded and compiled by Denis Power, with notes uploaded in August 2011. The enclosure is defined partly by an earthen bank running from the south-west around to the east, and partly by an existing field boundary on the eastern and south-western sides, which now stands about 1.35 metres high. The bank itself survives best on the south-west to west arc, where the external face rises to just over a metre. A shallow fosse, the external ditch that would have reinforced the bank's defensive or enclosing function, runs along the north-north-east to south-west section. It is not deep, only about 20 centimetres at its lowest, and measures roughly 3 metres across. At the west-north-west the bank has been partially removed, and a depression cuts into the interior for around 8 metres, suggesting some disturbance or later activity at that point.

The interior surface is uneven and covered in tall grass, which makes closer inspection a slow business. Notably, there is a roughly circular depression just north of centre, small in diameter but about 35 centimetres deep, whose origin is not explained in the record. It may be the trace of a filled pit, a collapsed feature, or simply a result of subsidence, though any interpretation would be speculative. The site lies in active pasture, so access depends on the land and the season, and the tall grass can obscure the subtler details of the interior. The bank on the south-west to west is the section most worth examining, as it retains the clearest sense of the monument's original form and gives the best impression of the scale of enclosure that would once have defined a small farming household's world.