What makes it quietly odd is not its current state but the disagreement over what it once looked like. Two separate Ordnance Survey maps, drawn less than fifty years apart, tell rather different stories about the same place.

A rath is a type of ringfort, typically a circular earthen enclosure built during the early medieval period in Ireland, used as a farmstead or residence and bounded by one or more raised earthen banks. The 1846 six-inch Ordnance Survey map records this particular example as a five-sided enclosure, roughly 20 metres across in each direction. Yet when surveyors returned for the 1893 to 1894 edition of the same map series, they recorded something quite different: a circular enclosure of around 25 metres in diameter, open at the northern end. Whether the shape changed in the intervening decades through agricultural disturbance, or whether each survey team simply interpreted an already degraded feature differently, is impossible to say with confidence now. The site sits approximately 400 metres west of the Flesk River, on a slight elevation in what is today grazing land.

What remains visible on the ground amounts to very little: a low rise in the pasture, the kind of feature that a walker might cross without a second thought. The two maps together are, in a way, the most legible version of the site that survives.