The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was a circular earthen enclosure typically used as a farmstead or place of refuge during the early medieval period. What makes this particular example quietly remarkable is not what remains but what was recorded before it disappeared, and the fact that within its banks there appear to have once stood both a church site and a burial ground.

When the researcher Bowman documented the site in 1934, it was still a legible feature in the landscape: a circular area roughly 39 yards across, enclosed by a fence nine feet high and a fosse, that is a surrounding ditch, fifteen feet wide and four feet deep. The fosse is the earthwork element most characteristic of this type of monument, designed to define and defend the enclosed space. Ordnance Survey maps from 1842 and 1905 both depict the enclosure clearly as a hachured circle approximately 35 metres in diameter, and the 1937 edition shows it still intact at around 25 metres across with its ditch visible. Sometime during the 1960s or 1970s, according to local memory, the site was levelled, most likely during agricultural improvement works. The ground today retains only a shallow depression and a differential growth pattern in the grass above where the old earthworks once ran, the kind of subtle trace that becomes readable in certain lights and seasons. An aerial photograph has also captured the fosse as a cropmark, where the buried ditch causes overlying crops or grass to grow differently from the surrounding soil, preserving a ghostly outline of the original structure from above.