This is a rath, the earthwork form of a ringfort, the kind of enclosed farmstead that tens of thousands of early medieval Irish families once called home. What makes this one quietly interesting is not size or grandeur but the way its defensive logic is still readable in the landscape, even beneath the vegetation.

The enclosure measures roughly 28 metres north to south and 20 metres east to west, defined on its northern and western sides by an earthen bank that still stands some 2.6 metres high on its outer face, though it has been worn to little more than a quarter of a metre on the interior. Alongside the bank runs a fosse, a defensive ditch, about 2.8 metres wide, with a further outer bank beyond it to the north and west. On the southern and north-western sides, where the natural slope does much of the defensive work, the builders relied on a scarp rather than a constructed bank. A causeway entrance at the north would have allowed access across the fosse. Modern field boundaries have complicated the picture somewhat: an east-west boundary clips the northern edge of the fosse and may be concealing part of it, blurring what was once a cleaner arrangement.