What reads at first glance as a dense thicket of trees and bushes is, on closer inspection, the outline of an early medieval ringfort, its circular form still legible beneath centuries of encroaching vegetation. These earthwork enclosures, known in Irish as raths, were the everyday domestic settlements of early Christian Ireland, typically housing a single farming family and their livestock within a raised bank and ditch. This one has held its shape rather well, even if nature has done its best to reclaim the interior.

The enclosure measures roughly thirty metres in diameter and is defined by an earthen bank that rises about eighty centimetres above the interior ground level and a more pronounced one metre seventy-five centimetres on the outer face. Beyond the bank lies a fosse, the external ditch that would have added both practical and symbolic separation between the enclosed space and the wider landscape, running to about sixty-five centimetres deep and two and a half metres wide. The survey, compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011, also notes a linear depression running eastward from the eastern edge of the enclosure. Though largely hidden by the same overgrowth that covers the bank and interior, this feature is thought to be natural rather than constructed, possibly a shallow drainage channel in the level ground.

Because the interior and much of the enclosing bank are smothered in trees and scrub, the site rewards a slow, patient approach rather than a quick look from the field boundary. The earthwork is most legible from the outside, where the relationship between bank and fosse can still be traced on foot, particularly in winter or early spring when leaf cover is thinner and the ground contours are easier to read. Access will depend on local landowner permissions, as is common with ringforts in agricultural settings across Ireland, and the level pasture around it gives little in the way of landmarks, so a map reference is worth having before you set out.