It is known locally as Lis a Roch, a name recorded by Neary in 1914, and that local memory of it speaks to something that archaeologists often note about ringforts in Ireland: the landscape remembers them long after their original purpose has blurred into uncertainty.

A rath is an early medieval enclosure, typically formed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and thought to have functioned as a farmstead or defended homestead. This particular example measures 32 metres north to south and 23.5 metres east to west, making it a respectably sized enclosure. Its defining elements are a scarp, an intervening fosse (that is, a ditch), and an outer bank, all of which survive in recognisable form. A field wall built at some later, unrecorded date runs along the outer bank from the west, continuing through north and around to the southeast, the kind of casual reuse of ancient earthworks that farmers across Ireland have practised for centuries without necessarily thinking much about what lay beneath. The entrance gap, 6 metres wide, opens at the southwest, a placement that recurs often enough in Irish ringforts to have attracted considerable scholarly speculation about prevailing winds, solar orientation, and practical convenience.

The site sits on the ridge summit, which means it is visible from the surrounding low ground and, conversely, commands a clear view outward. Whether that position was chosen for defence, for social display, or simply because a slight rise in otherwise level terrain was practical for drainage, is the kind of question the earthwork itself cannot answer.