What it actually represents is a rath, a type of ringfort consisting of an earthen bank enclosing a circular area, which would once have served as a defended farmstead, most likely during the early medieval period. This particular example measures roughly 25 metres across its northeast to southwest axis, and the enclosing bank, where it survives, runs from north-northwest around to the south, standing about 0.7 metres high and 3.3 metres wide. The western half of that bank has been levelled, whether by agricultural clearance or gradual erosion over centuries is not recorded, and the original entrance can no longer be made out.

The site carries one further quiet anomaly. When the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch mapping of Ireland in 1837, this rath was not recorded at all, meaning it either escaped the attention of surveyors at the time or had already been sufficiently reduced to go unnoticed. That absence is itself a small piece of history; the 1837 OS maps were among the most detailed topographical surveys undertaken anywhere in the world at that period, and features far more subtle than a raised earthwork were typically noted. That this one slipped through suggests how thoroughly it had already been absorbed into the working agricultural landscape by the early nineteenth century.