A rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by earthen banks and ditches, built and occupied primarily during the early medieval period, broadly from around the fifth to the twelfth centuries. They served as farmsteads and sometimes as defended homesteads for local farming families. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is not its scale but its layering: two concentric banks with a fosse, the ditch between them, give the site a sense of deliberate organisation that survives despite centuries of agricultural use.

The outer dimensions run to roughly 28 metres north to south and just over 27 metres east to west, making this a fairly modest enclosure by ringfort standards. The inner bank, standing about 0.55 metres above the interior, remains consistent all the way around, suggesting it has escaped the worst of later interference. The outer bank is considerably more worn, rising only around 0.15 metres, and is most legible along the south-east to north-west arc. Inside, most of the enclosed space is occupied by a raised platform, approximately 22 metres in diameter and sitting around 0.3 metres above the surrounding ground level. This kind of interior platform is not unusual in raths and may reflect accumulated occupation debris or deliberate construction. Along the inner edge of the southern bank there is a small depression, roughly four metres long and just over a metre wide, which retains some water. Whether this represents a deliberate feature, perhaps a souterrain entrance or simply a hollow that has never quite drained, the notes do not say.