This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common monument type surviving in the Irish landscape. Ringforts were typically enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, home to a single family and their livestock, defined by one or more circular banks of earth. This particular example measures approximately 44.8 metres east to west and 36.8 metres north to south, making it a reasonably substantial enclosure, with an earthen bank that still stands to around 0.65 metres on the interior and 0.7 metres on the exterior.

The site carries several layers of accumulated use and modification. Along the north-western to north-north-eastern arc, the bank appears to have been deliberately heightened at some point, most likely to serve as a field boundary, a common fate for ringfort banks in agricultural landscapes where later farmers found ready-made earthworks convenient to repurpose. A possible external fosse, the term for a defensive or boundary ditch, is still traceable along the south-eastern to western side. Two gaps in the bank, each roughly two metres wide, occur at the east-north-east and south, the southern one likely marking an original entrance. An old trackway runs along the outside of the bank to the north-west and north-north-east, suggesting the enclosure remained a reference point in the local landscape long after its primary use had ended. Within the rath, two further features warrant attention. Beneath the interior there may be a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage that early medieval communities used for storage or refuge. And approximately 25 metres to the south-west lies what may be a fulacht fia, a burnt mound associated with ancient outdoor cooking or industrial activity, often found near water sources and generally predating the ringfort tradition by many centuries.