Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Most consisted of a circular area defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, within which a family would have kept their dwelling and livestock. This example in County Limerick sits on a steep south-south-east-facing hill slope, and the slant of the ground gives the whole thing an off-kilter quality that becomes more apparent the closer you look.

The site was recorded and compiled by Denis Power, with notes uploaded in August 2011. The ringfort is roughly circular, measuring just under 29 metres north to south and just over 30 metres east to west, placing it at a fairly typical size for the type. Its earthen bank still stands, though not uniformly. On the interior face it rises to around half a metre, while the exterior face reaches approximately one and a half metres, reflecting how the ground level outside the enclosure drops away. The most legible stretch of bank runs from the south-east around to the south-south-west. Elsewhere, the bank has been straightened and incorporated into the field boundaries that run from the west-south-west to the north-west and from the north-east to the south-east, meaning that what was once a self-contained enclosure has been quietly stitched into the working geometry of the surrounding farmland.

For anyone visiting, the site is in active pasture, so the usual courtesies of Irish farmland apply, including being aware of livestock and respecting any boundaries. Cattle have already worn a gap across the bank at the north-north-east, and there is a separate break in the bank at the west-south-west, about 0.9 metres wide, which may represent an original entrance or a later breach. Vegetation overgrowth masks much of the bank, so the best time to visit is late winter or early spring, before the growing season obscures what little earthwork profile remains visible. The interior slopes downhill to the south-south-east and is under rough pasture, offering little in the way of obvious surface features, but standing in the middle of the enclosure and tracing the line of the surviving bank against the field hedges gives a reasonable sense of the original shape.