What gives this particular site a slightly layered quality is not its scale but its combination of features: a roughly circular bank of earth, around 25 metres across at its widest, finished along its crest with a stone wall, as if the original builders or later occupants felt the earthwork alone was not quite enough.

This is a rath, a type of ringfort that was the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, broadly from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Raths were typically the enclosed farmsteads of farming families, their earthen banks serving as much to define territory and status as to provide defence. The bank here survives to a height of about 0.8 metres, which is modest but not unusual for a site that has spent centuries under agricultural use. A gap in the bank on the northern side likely marks the original entrance, a common placement in Irish ringforts. More intriguing is what lies inside: cultivation ridges running on an east-west axis across the interior. These ridges, formed by repeated spade or plough work, suggest the enclosed space was at some point turned over to tillage, either by its early medieval occupants or by later farmers who saw a ready-made field boundary and made use of it, with no particular regard for what the enclosure had originally been.