It measures just over 36 metres across, and to the untrained eye it might read as nothing more than a slight swelling in the field. Yet the scarp that defines its southern arc rises to 2.3 metres, a meaningful earthwork that speaks to deliberate, organised effort at some point in the early medieval period. A rath, as ringforts of this earthen type are known, would typically have enclosed a family farmstead, the raised interior and surrounding bank offering a degree of enclosure and status rather than serious military defence. This one, however, remains tentative in the record, classified as a possible rath, its origins still uncertain.

What makes the site quietly anomalous is its absence from the 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, the great baseline document of Irish historical geography. It only surfaces cartographically in the 1917 edition, where a semicircular hachured area curving from southeast to northwest suggests surveyors were beginning to notice something worth marking. By that point, the site was already being eroded. Quarrying into the ridge slope at the south had truncated a section of the scarp along its south-southwest arc, and field fences built at a later date replaced the earthwork along its northern and eastern edges, absorbing its line into the practical geometry of agricultural land management. The interior is level and featureless, giving no surface indication of what, if anything, once stood within it. A vernacular farmstead once sat immediately to the northeast, and a modern farmstead occupies ground to the southwest, so the site has long been surrounded by the business of rural life, which may account for some of the damage and some of the neglect.