What looks like a gentle circular rise is actually the eroded outline of a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was the most common form of rural habitation in Ireland between roughly the sixth and twelfth centuries. These enclosures, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, served as farmsteads for individual families, offering a modest degree of security for people and livestock alike.

The site was recorded and compiled by Denis Power, with notes uploaded in August 2011. It sits on a gentle south-facing slope and takes the form of a circular area approximately twenty-six metres in diameter. The enclosure is defined by a scarped edge, meaning the ground has been cut or shaped into a low step, here standing just thirty centimetres high and around two and a half metres wide. Beyond that edge, on the south-west to south-east arc, runs an external fosse, a shallow ditch roughly two metres wide and a quarter of a metre deep, which would originally have added to the sense of enclosure around the interior. A field boundary follows the base of the scarp along the south-east to south-west edge, suggesting that later agricultural practice has incorporated, or at least acknowledged, the old line of the earthwork. The entire site now lies under pasture.

Because the site is in active farmland, access would require the landowner's permission, and there is nothing to mark it from a road or public path. The most visible feature on the ground is the slight but consistent change in level where the scarp runs, which becomes easier to read in low, raking light, particularly in the early morning or late afternoon when shadows define even modest earthworks with surprising clarity. Looking for the faint arc of the external ditch to the south and south-west, and the way the modern field boundary has been laid along the old edge of the enclosure, gives a clearer sense of how the original form of the site has persisted, quietly, beneath centuries of farming.