What survives above ground amounts to a low rise of roughly a metre on the western side and about eleven and a half metres of the original interior extending eastward, now overgrown. Everything else has been levelled, leaving the site legible only if you know what to look for.

A rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, was typically a circular earthen enclosure used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries. They were once numbered in their tens of thousands across Ireland, and their gradual disappearance into agricultural land is a long and still-continuing story. This particular example was recorded as a clear circular enclosure on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, which makes its subsequent fate all the more stark. By later editions of the same map, the confident circle had been reduced to a broken arc of hachures, the cartographic shorthand for a slope or bank, indicating that even by the nineteenth century the earthwork was losing its definition. Within the same field, two further features add a layer of complexity to the site: a possible souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber that often served as storage or refuge, associated with the fort's interior; and a boulder burial, a form of prehistoric interment in which a large stone is placed over the remains of the dead.

The proximity of the boulder burial is quietly suggestive. Ringforts were frequently constructed on or near sites that were already ancient when their builders broke ground, whether out of practical preference for elevated or well-drained ground, or out of some awareness of what had come before. Here, on one ordinary field on a south-facing slope, the archaeology appears to compress several thousand years into a single unremarkable-looking patch of grass.