What remains is a roughly circular enclosure, some 29 metres across in both directions, defined by a bank of earth and stone rising to about a metre in height. That modest rise is easy to overlook from a distance, but it marks out a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common type of early medieval settlement monument in the country. Thousands were built across Ireland, typically between the sixth and tenth centuries, serving as enclosed farmsteads for a single family and their livestock.

What makes this particular example quietly interesting is the evidence visible within the enclosure itself. Cultivation ridges, running on a north to south axis across the interior, suggest that the ground inside was at some point worked as agricultural land, either during the fort's active use or in a later period when the enclosure's original function had been forgotten and the sheltered ground simply put to practical use. The two phases of activity, domestic enclosure and field cultivation, now overlap in the same 29-metre circle, each leaving its own faint impression on the soil.