What makes this particular rath, the Irish word for a ringfort, an enclosed farmstead of early medieval date typically bounded by a raised earthen bank and ditch, worth a second thought is something stranger than its modest proportions suggest. The stream that once ran beside it no longer follows its natural course. At some point, it was deliberately redirected into a channel cut along the line of the fosse, the defensive ditch that would originally have run around the outside of the bank, on the northern half of the enclosure. The material dug out of that channel was then piled onto the bank itself, altering the very shape of the monument it was imposed upon.

The enclosure measures around 24 metres in diameter, with an interior bank height of just half a metre in places, and its entrance faces south-west. The detail about the stream was noted by Hartnett in 1939, which places the observation in a period of considerable activity in Irish field archaeology, when researchers were beginning to catalogue earthworks that centuries of agricultural use had left in various states of survival and disturbance. Whether the stream was rerouted for drainage, to create a water feature within an already-ruined enclosure, or simply as a practical solution to some localised flooding problem, the notes do not say. That ambiguity is itself part of what makes the site quietly interesting: the landscape has been worked over more than once, and what survives is a layering of different practical decisions made across very different periods.