These circular earthwork enclosures, known in Irish as raths, were typically built during the early medieval period as farmstead enclosures, their raised banks and surrounding ditches defining a domestic space for a farming family and their livestock. This one is modest in scale, roughly 24 metres in diameter, but what makes it worth attention is the way its survival can be tracked almost decade by decade through successive maps and aerial surveys, each one recording another small loss.

The Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1840 shows it as a complete circular earthwork, recognisable and intact. By the time the 25-inch edition was produced in 1897, the record had already changed: the monument was partially levelled, with its defining scarp and external fosse, the shallow ditch that would have ringed the outer edge of the bank, both removed along the eastern side. Field boundaries compounded the damage over the following decades, with a curving boundary cutting across the western arc and a second boundary intersecting from the south. Aerial photography taken between 2005 and 2012 shows the rath as a semi-circular earthwork, its surviving arc outlined by trees running from south around to north. A Google Earth image dated September 2020 records further change, with the southern field boundary itself partially removed, leaving the monument in an ambiguous, in-between state. The site sits roughly 110 metres east of a watercourse, a location typical of early medieval settlement, where drainage and water access both played a role in choosing where to build.

The rath is on private agricultural land and there is no formal public access. It lies within improved pasture, so the ground underfoot is likely to be uneven where the earthwork survives, and the treeline that marks the western and northern arc provides the clearest visual orientation from a distance. The aerial photographs held by the Aerial Survey of Ireland, including one taken in September 2002, give a clearer sense of the surviving form than a ground-level visit might. Anyone with an interest in early medieval settlement patterns will find the mapped sequence, from the 1840 six-inch sheet through to recent satellite imagery, as informative as the site itself.