What looks from a distance like a slight irregularity in the ground resolves, on closer inspection, into a carefully formed circular enclosure, its earthen bank still standing between one and a half and one and two-thirds metres high on the outside, and its surrounding ditch still legible in the grass. It is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the kind of enclosed farmstead that early medieval families built across Ireland in their thousands during roughly the first millennium AD.

This particular example is compact but well-preserved. The raised interior platform measures eighteen metres across, enclosed by an earthen scarp four metres wide, with a flat-bottomed fosse, or ditch, of the same width running around the outside. The geometry is consistent and deliberate. At the south-south-east, a ramp and causeway mark where the original entrance once stood, the causeway crossing the fosse and the ramp cutting through the scarped bank above it. That entrance has been widened at some point in more recent times, likely to allow farm machinery or livestock through, which is a fate shared by many such sites across the country. A modern field bank has also been added along the outer western edge of the fosse, partially overlapping the ancient boundary. Despite these interventions, the essential form of the enclosure survives intact. The interior slopes gently down towards the entrance and remains dry and free of the scrub or bramble that obscures so many comparable sites.