This ringfort near Farahy sits on a gentle north-eastward slope, its roughly circular enclosure measuring around 53 metres east to west and 48 metres north to south. Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were the most common form of settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically serving as enclosed farmsteads for a single family or small community. What makes this one worth pausing over is the number of features that survive: the earthen bank still stands to 1.35 metres on its interior face, with traces of stone facing visible in places, and large boulders are embedded irregularly along the inner face from east to south, with three more lying at the base of the outer face to the north.

The enclosure is not simply a ring and a ditch. A narrow break of roughly 1.8 metres in the bank to the east-south-east marks what was likely the original entrance. Inside, two low radial banks, each about 0.4 metres high, run outward from the centre and effectively partition off the south-eastern quadrant, suggesting the interior was divided for practical purposes, perhaps to separate livestock from living space, though any such reading is speculative without excavation. The western bank shows a semicircular bulge outward, and a 6-metre gap opens in the northern bank. An external fosse, the shallow ditch that once reinforced the bank's defensive profile, survives as a slight depression around the perimeter. Perhaps most intriguing is the possible presence of a souterrain in the interior. Souterrains are underground stone-lined passages or chambers, commonly associated with Irish ringforts, and thought to have served for storage, refuge, or both. The Farahy example has not been formally excavated, so the souterrain remains unconfirmed.