It is not especially tall, rising to a maximum of around 1.3 metres, and not especially thick at 0.85 metres across, but the precision of its shape across a diameter of roughly 25 to 26 metres suggests it was never accidental. This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, one of the most common monument types in the country and yet one that still carries an air of quiet peculiarity when you encounter the physical remains.

Ringforts were typically enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, circular enclosures defined by earthen banks, ditches, or stone walls, used to protect livestock and signal the status of a farming family. What makes this particular example slightly unusual is its construction: the stone wall was not built from the ground up in the conventional sense, but raised on top of an earthen bank that had already eroded significantly by the time the wall was added, or has since eroded beneath it. The relationship between the two phases of construction points to a site that was adapted over time rather than built in a single episode. Today the whole structure is heavily overgrown, which both obscures and, in a way, preserves it.