It is, in fact, a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built in their thousands across Ireland during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Most were home to a single farming family, their enclosing banks serving as much for status and the corralling of livestock as for any serious defence.

This particular example measures roughly 23.7 metres on its north-east to south-west axis and about 20 metres across from north-west to south-east, making it a modest but reasonably well-preserved specimen. The enclosing earthen bank still stands to a height of 1.4 metres, and on its interior face, from the south-south-west around to the north-north-east, the bank is stone-faced, suggesting a degree of construction effort beyond the purely functional. A shallow external fosse, the ditch typically dug to provide material for the bank, runs from the south around to the north-west. On the eastern side, the natural rise of the slope does the work of a fosse on its own, dropping to a depth of 1.3 metres without any need for digging. A narrow entrance gap, about 0.8 metres wide, sits to the north-north-west. What makes the site particularly interesting is that it does not stand alone: on its northern side it is physically conjoined with a second ringfort, the two enclosures sharing a boundary in a paired arrangement that, while not unique in the Irish landscape, is uncommon enough to suggest deliberate planning, possibly two households in close relation to one another, whether by family or by tenure.