A rath, to use the Irish term, is a circular earthen enclosure, typically dating from the early medieval period, that once served as a farmstead surrounded by an earthen bank and ditch. This one measures roughly 40 metres in diameter, but stand in the field above it and you would see nothing unusual at all, just grass and grazing land.

What makes the site particularly curious is that it does not stand alone. It is the more westerly of two conjoined raths, its neighbour pressing up against it along its south-eastern arc. Paired or conjoined ringforts are relatively uncommon, and their relationship, whether one was built in deliberate proximity to the other, or whether the two represent different phases of occupation on the same landholding, is rarely straightforward to interpret. The 1892 Ordnance Survey six-inch map records this enclosure clearly, marking it as a circular feature at a time when the earthworks were presumably still legible, or at least traceable, in the landscape. Since then the physical remains have degraded to the point where they leave no impression at the surface.