The name survives; the reason does not.

The site is a rath, the familiar Irish ringfort type, a circular enclosure defined by earthen banks that once served as a farmstead boundary in the early medieval period. What makes this example a little more substantial than average is that it is bivallate, meaning it has not one but two concentric banks with a fosse, a ditch, running between them. The fosse here measures roughly three metres across. The inner bank reaches nearly two metres on its outer face, and the outer bank, at around 1.35 metres, is stone-faced along the stretch where it has been absorbed into the surrounding field boundary system running from west to north-east. That incorporation into a working agricultural landscape is typical of how these monuments have survived, embedded into the edges of later field systems rather than standing apart from them. The overall enclosure measures about forty metres in diameter. A causeway ten and a half metres wide crosses the fosse and aligns with a matching gap in the outer bank, which would have formed the main entrance. A passageway shown running tangentially to the south-east arc on the 1923 Ordnance Survey six-inch map has since been removed, and access now skirts the enclosure from the west round to the north-north-west.

The fort sits in pasture and is best approached from the north, where both the inner and outer banks are most legible despite being heavily masked by overgrowth. The interior is entirely covered by dense vegetation, so there is little to see within the enclosure itself, but the earthwork profile along the northern arc gives a reasonable impression of the original structure. The stone-facing visible on the outer bank where it merges with the field boundary is worth looking for. As with most such sites, the monument reads better in low winter light, when shadows bring out the earthwork contours more clearly.