This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed settlement built predominantly during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Thousands of them survive across Ireland in varying states of preservation, but this one carries a particular detail worth pausing over: a townland boundary runs directly through the monument at its south-east and south-west points, slicing across the archaeology as if the ringfort were simply another feature of the field system, which to generations of farmers, it effectively was.

The earthwork measures roughly 32 metres in diameter and is defined by a low bank and an external fosse, the shallow ditch that would originally have encircled the bank to reinforce it. The fosse survives only along the south-western arc through to the north, while no visible surface trace remains from the north around to the east, likely lost to agricultural activity or gradual erosion over the centuries. What makes the site additionally interesting is the presence within its interior of a cashel-built grave, recorded separately in the monument record. A cashel is a stone enclosure, and the combination of a rath and a secondary stone feature within it hints at a layered history of use and reuse across different periods. Neary noted the site as far back as 1914, placing it among the documented antiquities of the region even then.