What you are looking at is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was the most common type of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used to protect a farmstead and its livestock. This one measures approximately 36 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, enclosed by an earthen bank that still stands to an internal height of around 0.75 metres in places, with a shallow external fosse, or ditch, surviving along the north-western to north-north-eastern arc.

The bank has had a complicated relationship with the working landscape around it. Along part of its eastern to south-western arc it is faced externally in stone, and along the south-western to north-eastern stretch it has been absorbed into the modern field fence system, its ancient boundary quietly pressed into agricultural service. Coniferous trees have been planted on the eroded sections of the bank, and the interior itself has been planted as well. A shed has been built just outside the bank to the east. Perhaps the most intriguing detail is a long east-west trench observed running through the south-east quadrant of the interior, with the excavated material dumped on its northern side. Whether this represents some earlier investigation of the site or a more utilitarian intervention is not recorded, but it speaks to the quiet disturbances that accumulate around these places over generations, each one layering new use over old ground.