What you are looking for is roughly two thousand years of continuous presence in the Irish countryside: a rath, the most common type of early medieval settlement monument in Ireland. A rath is essentially a farmstead enclosed by one or more earthen banks, built to define territory, shelter livestock, and signal status. This one, in the townland of Cloghagalla Oughter, has held its shape quietly while the world around it changed.

The monument is subcircular in plan, measuring approximately 29.7 metres east to west and 27 metres north to south. It is defined by an earthen bank, around 4.2 metres wide, and a fosse, which is the external ditch dug to supply the material for the bank, running just under five metres wide. The eastern arc of the bank is the best preserved, rising to roughly a metre above the surrounding ground on its outer face; the western half has worn down more considerably over time. Running across the interior are cultivation ridges and drainage cuts oriented north to south, the marks of agricultural work carried out long after the rath itself fell out of use. The monument was flagged through the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, a reminder that much of what survives of early Irish settlement is recorded precisely because farmers have been working around these features, and sometimes through them, for generations.