This is a rath, one of the thousands of ringforts scattered across Ireland, built during the early medieval period as enclosed farmsteads for individual families or small communities. Most would have contained a house, outbuildings, and storage pits, all protected by a raised earthen bank and, in many cases, a ditch dug around the outside.

This particular example measures approximately 34 metres in diameter, with an earthen bank roughly 5.8 metres wide. Measured from the interior the bank stands about 1.7 metres high; from the outside, where the ground is lower, it reads at around 2.15 metres. To the south-west and south-east, an external fosse, essentially a defensive ditch, runs alongside the bank, measuring about 5 metres wide and half a metre deep, though it may once have been more pronounced. What makes the engineering here quietly interesting is the handling of the hillslope: the southern portion of the interior has been artificially raised by approximately 1.4 metres, levelling the ground within the enclosure against the natural fall of the land. The entrance, around 2.5 metres wide, faces south-east, an orientation that would have offered both morning light and a view down the slope.