What was once a substantial circular earthwork can now be read only in the soil itself, where changes in colour betray the outline of something far older than the field system that has slowly erased it.

The site is a univallate rath, meaning a ringfort defined by a single enclosing bank rather than the multiple concentric ramparts found at more elaborate examples. Ringforts of this kind were the dominant form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically housing a farming family and their animals within a protected enclosure. This one measures 51 metres across in both directions, making it a fairly substantial example. Its earthen bank still manages to rise to around 0.3 metres above the surrounding ground, despite generations of ploughing having reduced it almost completely. The site commands a good view in all directions, which would have been a practical consideration for anyone choosing to settle there, allowing early inhabitants to monitor livestock, approaching visitors, or any less welcome arrivals across the surrounding landscape.