This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish countryside. Ringforts were enclosed farmsteads, typically built during the early medieval period, in which a family and their livestock sheltered within a raised earthen bank. What makes this particular example quietly compelling is how much of it has survived intact, and how clearly its original layout can still be read in the landscape.

The enclosure measures thirty-five metres in diameter, defined by a bank reaching a maximum height of 1.2 metres. To the east, an external fosse, that is, a defensive ditch, survives to a depth of 1.3 metres, accompanied by a very slight outer bank of around 0.3 metres. The combination of bank, fosse, and outer bank represents a reasonably well-defended version of its type. A modern road clips the monument at its west-northwest side, truncating the bank at that point, but the damage is limited. More intriguing is a possible entrance gap at the south-southwest, where traces of a rectangular structure, roughly six metres east to west and four metres north to south, are visible just inside the enclosure and to the west of the gap. Rectangular outlines within ringforts are typically interpreted as the remains of a building, most probably a house, which would have stood within the protected interior during the site's period of use.