This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead that was the standard unit of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Thousands were built across the country; a great many have since been levelled by farming, eroded by time, or simply forgotten. This one occupies an ambiguous middle ground between survival and loss.

When the Ordnance Survey recorded the site on its six-inch map of 1842, the full circular form was still legible, showing a roughly circular area of approximately 32 metres in diameter, its bank traced by hachuring from south-southeast to north-northwest and by a broken line elsewhere. That completeness has not held. What remains today is an arc of earthen bank, around 25 metres long and still standing to a height of about 1.4 metres, running from the southwest to the northwest. On the western side, a fosse, the defensive ditch that would originally have run outside the bank, is still present but heavily overgrown. To the north, where the bank has been levelled, only a low rise in the ground marks where it once ran. The interior of the enclosure is slightly raised relative to the surrounding land, a subtle but telling sign of what once stood here.

The site is set in working grazing land, so the surrounding context is agricultural rather than archaeological. The surviving arc of bank, though incomplete, gives a reasonable sense of the original scale of the enclosure, and the relationship between the remaining earthwork and the faint traces elsewhere on the circuit rewards a careful look at ground level rather than a glance from a distance.