That intrusion, a roughly rectangular gouge measuring 6.7 metres by 2.6 metres bitten out of the bank and interior at the ENE, with the displaced earth and stones dumped unceremoniously back onto the bank to the northeast, is one of the more telling details about this particular site. The rath, as this type of monument is known in Irish, is a ringfort, the remains of an enclosed farmstead typical of early medieval Ireland, where a family would have lived within a circular bank-and-ditch boundary that served as much for status and livestock management as for any serious defence.

The site was recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the archaeological record in August 2011. The enclosure is roughly circular, measuring 27.1 metres north to south and 29 metres east to west, with a bank that reaches 1.4 metres in external height and 0.8 metres internally. Outside the bank, on the northern to east-south-eastern arc, runs an external fosse, the term for the accompanying ditch, here 2.4 metres wide and about 0.25 metres deep, shallow now but originally more pronounced. The bank itself survives best along the western to northern arc, where it retains something close to its original profile, but it diminishes toward the south, flattening into something more scarp-like as the ground begins to drop away. The surrounding landscape is limestone country, with outcrops breaking through the pasture, and to the east the terrain falls sharply down into a river valley, giving the site a naturally defensive aspect that whoever chose this location would not have overlooked.

The interior, under rough grazing at the time of survey, slopes downward toward the southeast, following the lie of the hillside. A modern field boundary runs tangentially along the northwestern arc of the bank, suggesting the enclosure has been absorbed into the working geometry of the farm around it over many centuries. Visitors approaching this kind of site in pastureland should expect the monument to read quietly in the landscape, more felt as a slight rise and depression than seen as a dramatic structure. The best-preserved section of the bank along the west and north offers the clearest sense of the original form, while the quarried breach at the ENE is a reminder that these monuments, despite their age, have rarely been left entirely alone.