What remains sits at a break in a north-east-facing slope in Rampere, County Wicklow, the surviving earthwork curving away from the tarmac with a quiet stubbornness that centuries of agricultural pressure have not entirely overcome.

The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built in earthen or stone form across Ireland from roughly the Iron Age through the early medieval period. Most were homesteads rather than fortresses, the bank and fosse serving as much to define territory and contain livestock as to provide any serious military defence. This example is a reasonably substantial specimen: the circular enclosure measures 41 metres in diameter, defined by an earthen bank some 7.3 metres wide and standing up to 2 metres at its highest point. Around the outside runs a fosse, a shallow ditch, though here it is only poorly defined and measures around 4 metres in width. No trace of an original entrance has been identified, and no internal features are visible, which is not unusual for earthworks of this kind where centuries of ploughing, grazing, and general disturbance have erased surface evidence of whatever structures once stood inside the bank. The north-east-facing slope on which it sits would have offered a degree of natural drainage, a practical consideration that early medieval farmers understood well.