That small discrepancy rewards a second look. A rath is a ringfort, the type of enclosed farmstead that was the basic unit of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of one or more earthen banks surrounding a circular interior where a family would have kept their home and livestock. Here, two such banks survive, along with a dry, heavily overgrown fosse, the ditch that once separated them. The outer bank, standing about 1.5 metres high, is stone-faced on its exterior side, a detail that suggests some investment in its construction beyond simple earth-throwing.

The circular raised area measures roughly 33 metres north to south and 32 metres east to west, set on a south-east-facing slope in what is now pasture. The interior slopes downward toward that puzzling gap in the inner bank, but local knowledge points to a more prosaic explanation for the fort's imperfect condition: the interior was ploughed at some point, and the process gradually wore down the inner bank that had originally run all the way round. Ploughing inside ringforts was not unusual in later centuries, when the land enclosed by ancient earthworks was simply treated as available farmland, with little thought for what lay beneath. In this case, something may still lie beneath. A possible souterrain has been identified within the interior, which would be a souterrain in the Irish archaeological sense, an underground passage or chamber, typically stone-lined, associated with early medieval settlement and possibly used for storage or concealment.