Beneath and around them, the outline of an Early Medieval ringfort, or rath, survives as a low earthen bank just a metre in height, quietly persisting in the landscape while cattle graze around it.

A rath is an enclosed farmstead of the Early Medieval period, typically built between roughly 500 and 1000 AD, in which a family and their livestock sheltered within a raised bank or banks. This example is modest in scale, with a diameter of around twenty metres, but it carries one feature that lifts it slightly out of the ordinary: the inner face of the enclosing bank is stone-faced, meaning that at some point the builders, or later occupants, lined the interior wall with stone, adding structural definition to what might otherwise have been a simple earthen ring. Whether that stonework was original or a later reinforcement is not recorded. The eastern half of the interior may also contain a souterrain, an underground passage or chamber of the kind commonly associated with Irish ringforts, often interpreted as a place of storage or refuge. Its presence here remains tentative rather than confirmed.