The trees have colonised the level interior of a rath, the Irish term for a roughly circular enclosure formed by earthen banks, typically dating to the early medieval period and used as a farmstead or place of habitation. What makes this one quietly arresting is the layering of time: an Iron Age or early medieval structure now shaded by woodland, sitting immediately northwest of a farmyard that has physically grown into it.

The enclosure is substantial. Recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the national Sites and Monuments Record in August 2011, the rath measures approximately 43 metres north to south and 47 metres east to west. Its earthen bank rises around 1.4 metres on the interior face and 2.1 metres on the exterior, which gives some sense of the effort involved in its original construction. Beyond the bank lies a fosse, the defensive ditch that in ringfort building was typically dug to provide material for the bank itself, here reaching 2 metres in depth and over 3 metres in width. A counterscarp bank, a low secondary ridge thrown up on the outer edge of the ditch, survives to around 0.5 metres. The whole thing sits on an east-facing slope, a common orientation for early Irish settlement sites, likely chosen for shelter and morning light. The farmyard belonging to Fort Edmund house encroaches on the southeastern side of the defences, and a more recent wall runs close outside the fosse from the south-southwest to the north-northwest.

The site is in pasture and the farmyard adjacency means access would require landowner permission. Because the interior is covered by mature trees, the earthworks themselves are best appreciated from outside, where the profile of the bank and ditch is clearest. The encroachment of farm buildings on the southeastern arc is worth noting on approach, as it can make that section harder to read as an ancient feature. The remaining circuit, however, is largely legible, and the fosse in particular retains its depth and width in a way that gives a real sense of the original scale of the defences.