What was once a rath, the Irish term for a roughly circular earthen ringfort typically used as a farmstead enclosure during the early medieval period, has been reduced to a subtly raised circle of ground, roughly 28 metres across from east to west, betrayed now only by a shallow depression running along its western, northern, and eastern edges.

The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded it clearly, drawn with the hachuring conventions of the time that indicate an upstanding earthen bank forming a nearly complete circle. By the time the same area was surveyed again for the 1906 and 1934 editions, something significant had shifted. The bank along the north-west to south-east arc had been absorbed into the surrounding field boundary system, the kind of quiet agricultural reuse that claimed countless such monuments across Ireland as land was reorganised and intensively worked across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A deep drain subsequently cut along the southern side of the fence line has further complicated the picture, though the field boundary to the south may itself preserve the last remnants of the original bank within its fabric.

What remains is a site that rewards careful attention rather than a casual glance. The shallow depression encircling the raised interior is most legible in low, raking light, and the slight rise of the central area becomes more apparent once you know to look for it. The field boundaries themselves, unremarkable to most eyes, carry within them the compressed archaeology of a structure that was already ancient when the first Ordnance surveyors mapped it.