It measures roughly 45 metres across, defined now by nothing more than a low rise in the ground, and if you did not already know what to look for, you would most likely walk straight past it. This is all that remains of a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the type of enclosed farmstead that was once the most common form of rural settlement across early medieval Ireland. Thousands were built between roughly the sixth and tenth centuries, their earthen banks and ditches enclosing a family's home, livestock, and daily life.

What makes this particular example quietly interesting is the evidence of its earlier visibility. When the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch map series in 1842, the enclosure was recorded with hachures, the small radiating marks cartographers used to indicate an earthwork with some surviving height and definition. The fact that it appeared at all suggests it was still a meaningful presence in the landscape at that point, with a diameter of approximately 45 metres indicated on the map, consistent with the dimensions that survive today at 45.5 metres north to south and 44.5 metres east to west. At some point after that survey, the banks were levelled, most likely through agricultural clearance, reducing a once-substantial earthwork to the faint circular swell that remains in the pasture now.