It is easy to walk past a feature like this without registering what it represents: a rath, or earthen ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish archaeological landscape, yet one whose ordinariness has made it frequently overlooked. Ringforts were enclosed farmsteads, typically of the early medieval period, built to protect livestock, household structures, and the family that depended on both. This particular example measures twenty-six metres in diameter across the interior, modest but not unusual for the type.

The enclosure is defined in different ways around its circuit, which gives some sense of how the natural slope was incorporated into its construction. To the north-east and east, an earthen bank survives, roughly three and a half metres wide and just over a metre in internal height. From the east around to the north-west, the boundary takes the form of a scarp, a sharp drop in the ground surface, here reaching a considerable three and a half metres in height, the slope itself doing much of the defensive or enclosing work. The north-western to north-eastern arc has been cut across by a townland boundary running east to west, a reminder that administrative lines drawn centuries after a site was abandoned have no particular respect for what lies beneath them. The interior tilts gently downward toward the south-west, and while the southern part remains open pasture, the northern section has been claimed by overgrowth, with trees established around the outer perimeter as well.