Today cattle move freely through a gap in the bank on the south-east side and graze in the interior, which gives the place an odd double life: simultaneously an early medieval archaeological monument and a working farmyard.

The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was the standard form of rural settlement across Ireland from roughly the early Christian period through to the twelfth century or so. Constructed from the earth dug to form an encircling ditch, the bank would originally have enclosed a farmstead, protecting livestock and the family dwelling within. This particular example is a reasonable size, measuring just over forty metres in diameter, with a bank that still stands up to two metres high in places. That it survives at all owes something to the fact that the surrounding field boundaries have been removed over time, leaving the monument sitting relatively open in pasture with a clear outlook northward over the Shournagh River valley. The gap to the south-east may represent the original entrance, which in ringforts was commonly on the eastern or south-eastern side, though it could equally have been widened or modified in later centuries to suit agricultural use.