What makes it worth a second look is precisely that tension between survival and erosion: part of the bank has been folded into a field boundary on its western and north-western side, while on the north-north-east to east-north-east arc, a field boundary that had similarly encroached upon it has since been removed, leaving that section exposed again. The site neither dominates its surroundings nor disappears into them.

This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically enclosing a farmstead and its associated buildings within a circular earthen bank. The example here is modest but well-defined: a raised circular area roughly 23.7 metres in diameter, enclosed by a bank of earth and stone between 4.8 and 6.5 metres wide, standing between 0.6 and 1.2 metres above the interior ground level. Unlike many ringforts, there is no fosse, the external ditch that usually accompanies the bank and whose upcast material was used to build it. A gap of about two metres in the eastern bank is not a later breach but the original entrance, oriented, as was common practice, towards the east.