It is the kind of mundane administrative line that has, over centuries, quietly dismembered an older landscape feature without anyone making much of it.

The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built and occupied roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Ringforts typically consist of a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks, sometimes accompanied by an external fosse, the shallow ditch from which the bank material was originally dug. This example is sub-circular in plan, measuring approximately 26 metres north to south and 29 metres east to west. The enclosing bank has been significantly reduced over time, surviving now mainly as a scarp, a low eroded slope rather than a proper upstanding bank, with the fosse remaining most legible along the south-east, south, west, and northern arcs. What makes the location additionally interesting is the proximity of a second ringfort roughly 160 metres to the east-south-east, suggesting this was once a settled and perhaps socially organised stretch of farmland, where more than one enclosed homestead occupied the same gentle hillside.