The word points toward the same root as rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, and the earthwork it describes here is quietly persistent in the landscape, a grass-covered oval sitting on a slight shelf at the foot of a south-east-facing slope, with a stream running roughly north to south about sixty metres to the east.

When the Ordnance Survey mapped this part of County Wexford in 1839, the feature appeared on their six-inch sheet as a roughly circular enclosure of around twenty-five metres in diameter. Closer inspection on the ground reveals something slightly more complex. The enclosure is in fact oval, measuring approximately thirty-two metres east to west and twenty-seven metres north to south. Its boundary is a stone-clad earthen bank, about two metres wide, that stands between half a metre and just under two metres high depending on which side you measure from, the interior being noticeably lower than the exterior. Along the eastern side, that bank is accompanied by a flat-bottomed fosse, essentially a ditch dug to reinforce the enclosure's definition, about five metres wide at the top. To the south and west, a second, much slighter bank survives, now only about twenty centimetres high. Ringforts of this type are generally associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, roughly the period between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and would originally have enclosed a farmstead or small family holding. What makes this particular example a little more unusual is that it is conjoined to a second enclosure immediately to the south, the two sharing or abutting a boundary rather than standing independently, which may point to a more complicated history of use or expansion than a single oval in a field might suggest.