The outline is easy to miss: a sub-circular platform roughly 19 metres north to south and 21 metres east to west, its enclosing bank of earth and stone worn down almost to nothing across much of its circuit. Only the south-western and north-western arcs still hold any real definition, and the shallow external fosse, the drainage and defensive ditch that would once have ringed the whole structure, survives only in fragments on the western and northern sides. A gap of just over three metres on the east-south-east marks the original entrance.

This is a rath, the everyday Irish word for a ringfort, the type of enclosed farmstead that was built and occupied across Ireland from roughly the early medieval period, broadly the fifth to twelfth centuries. Tens of thousands were constructed, making them among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape, yet most have been so thoroughly reduced by centuries of ploughing, grazing, and land clearance that what remains is often only a faint suggestion of their original form. This one sits on a slight natural rise, which would have helped with drainage and visibility, and its interior still carries vague traces of cultivation ridges, the low parallel undulations left by ridge-and-furrow farming. More quietly remarkable is the faint circular outline detectable in the northern quadrant of the interior, recorded as a house site, almost certainly the footprint of a round structure where someone once lived within the enclosure. A second ringfort lies just 200 metres to the south-south-east, and the Irishtown River, which marks the boundary with the townland of Lakingstown, runs approximately 120 metres to the north-east.