Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when they are earthen in construction, are among the most common archaeological monuments in Ireland, typically dating from the early medieval period, roughly 500 to 1000 AD. They served as enclosed farmsteads, the bank and fosse providing a degree of security for a family and their livestock. What makes this one worth a second look is how much domestic detail has survived within the enclosure itself.

The fort is broadly circular, measuring 35.5 metres north to south and 33 metres east to west, enclosed by an earth and stone bank standing 1.1 metres high. On the western to north-western arc, a stone wall runs along the top of that bank, suggesting either a later reinforcement or a particularly well-built stretch of the original boundary. Outside the bank runs a fosse, a defensive ditch, which remains waterlogged, giving it an oddly alive quality for a feature that may be over a thousand years old. Inside, cultivation ridges cross the interior on a north-east to south-west axis, the unmistakable corrugation of early agricultural activity. In the south-east quadrant sits a circular hut site five metres in diameter, small by any standard, but a legible outline of where someone once sheltered and slept within the protective ring of the bank.