It is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typically dating from the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, when thousands of such structures were built across the island as the basic unit of rural settlement. This one is modest even by the standards of the form: a bank of earth, now overgrown with bushes and broken by numerous gaps, enclosing a roughly circular space just over thirty-one metres in diameter.

The physical details, though spare, are precise. The surrounding bank measures about four and a half metres wide and rises to around one and a half metres above the interior ground level, with a slightly greater height on the outer face. Just beyond it lies a fosse, the shallow external ditch that would originally have reinforced the enclosure, now only about twenty centimetres deep. These dimensions suggest a relatively modest homestead rather than a high-status site, and the poor state of preservation tells its own story about centuries of agricultural use, waterlogging, and gradual collapse. The site holds a preservation order under the National Monuments Acts, which at least gives it formal legal protection against further deliberate interference.