The view alone hints that whoever chose this location was thinking about more than farming.

The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish landscape. Ringforts were typically enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, their earthen banks serving as enclosures for livestock and household activity rather than as military defences in any serious sense. This one measures approximately 26.9 metres north to south and 28 metres east to west, enclosed by an earthen bank standing 2.5 metres high, with a shallow external fosse, or ditch, running around its outer edge. What makes it slightly unusual is the construction detail: the bank is stone-faced on its interior side, and the entrance to the east, 3.2 metres wide, is also stone-faced to the south. A second gap exists to the south-south-west, though whether this is original or a later breach is unclear. Inside, ferns have taken over much of the ground, but beneath the growth there are traces of what may be a rectangular structural foundation in the northern quadrant, and cultivation ridges running across the interior on a north-south axis, suggesting the enclosed ground was worked at some point, perhaps long after the fort itself fell out of use.