It is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was typically a circular enclosure bounded by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead and place of shelter during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Thousands of these survive across Ireland, yet each one carries its own particular condition, its own degree of survival or slow erasure.

This example has a diameter of 32 metres, which places it in the mid-range for sites of its type. The enclosing earthen bank is modest in what remains: its internal face rises only about 0.2 metres above the interior ground level, while the external face is slightly more pronounced at around 0.5 metres. Beyond the bank lies a fosse, the external ditch that would originally have reinforced the sense of enclosure, now measuring roughly 0.2 metres deep and 1.2 metres wide where it can still be traced. The north-north-west to north-west section of the fosse has been infilled by comparatively recent dumping, and mounding in the north-west quadrant of the interior points to the same activity. Parts of the bank have eroded considerably over time. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011.

The interior is otherwise level, covered in rough pasture and shaded by mature thorn and ash trees, which lend the enclosure a certain seclusion even in an open agricultural setting. Thorn trees in particular have long been associated with ringforts in Irish folk tradition, often left uncut out of caution, and their presence here feels in keeping with that pattern. The site sits on private farmland, so any visit would require permission from the landowner. There is nothing dramatic to announce its presence from the road; what the site offers is the quieter experience of reading a subtle landform, tracing the bank as it rises and falls, and recognising the fosse even where it has been partially obscured.