It is heavily overgrown now, which is in some ways the most honest version of how most of Ireland's ringforts have survived, half-swallowed by vegetation and easy to walk past without recognising what you are looking at.

A rath, as this type of monument is technically classified, is a ringfort defined by earthen rather than stone construction, typically dating from the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. They were the enclosed farmsteads of their time, the bank and accompanying ditch serving as a boundary and a degree of protection for a household and its livestock. This particular example measures just under thirty metres across its north-south axis, which places it comfortably within the range of a single-family enclosure. Two gaps in the bank, one to the south-east and one to the south-west, survive, though whether either represents an original entrance or later disturbance is not recorded. The site sits on the northern slope of an east-west ridge, a position that would have offered reasonable visibility of the surrounding land even if it sacrificed some of the solar shelter a south-facing slope would have provided.