No earthen bank, no raised profile; what remains is a cropmark, the faint outline of a circular enclosure roughly 40 metres across, legible only from the air. When crops grow unevenly, tracing the line of a buried ditch beneath the soil, the shape of an early medieval settlement briefly reappears in the landscape, visible on aerial photographs but invisible to anyone standing in the field.

A ringfort, or rath, was typically a farmstead of the early medieval period, defined by one or more circular banks and ditches enclosing a domestic space. Here, what the aerial photographs reveal is a single fosse, the term for a rock-cut or earthen ditch, tracing that familiar circular form. The site sits on level, low-lying ground, and roughly 50 metres to the south-west lies a second rath, a companion site that does retain some presence on the ground. The two enclosures in such proximity suggest this was once a settled, perhaps farmed stretch of countryside, though the details of who occupied either site remain unrecorded.