It is easy to miss, and that is partly the point. What looks like a slight thickening of the ground is in fact a ringfort, or rath, a type of enclosed farmstead built throughout Ireland roughly between the early medieval period and the Norman arrival, when a family would raise a circular bank and ditch around their dwelling for security, status, and the practical management of livestock.

This particular example measures around 25 metres in diameter. The inner bank, between four and six metres wide, reaches nearly two metres high on its exterior face at the west side, giving a reasonable sense of how imposing even a modest rath could feel from the outside. Encircling the bank is a fosse, a defensive ditch, now visible as a shallow depression roughly four metres across, and beyond that the traces of an outer bank survive as a low stony rise running from north-west to south-south-east. The outer bank has not fared well on its southern and south-western arc, where two intersecting property fences, running east to west and north to south, have cut across and largely removed it. A gap of about two metres in the inner bank at the south-east may be an original entrance, or the result of later disturbance. The interior, whatever domestic life it once enclosed, is now given over entirely to a dense thicket of hazel and brambles.