This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common type of early medieval farmstead in Ireland. Thousands were built between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries, each one a raised enclosure of earth or stone marking the home ground of a farming family. What makes this particular example worth attention is partly what survives and partly what does not.

The enclosure is oval in plan, stretching 38 metres north to south and 24 metres east to west. Along the south-western, western, and northern arc, a bank of earth and stone still stands, measuring about 6.5 metres wide and just over a metre high, with an external fosse, a defensive ditch, running outside it roughly 4.6 metres wide and 1.2 metres deep. There is some surviving evidence of a stone revetment lining the inner face of this bank, which would have given it a neater, more deliberate finish than the grassed-over mound suggests today. Around the remaining circuit, where the bank has not survived, the boundary is marked only by a partially eroded scarp, a gentle step in the ground between 0.7 and 1.4 metres high. No original entrance can now be identified. Inside the enclosure, at the south-eastern end, survives a small rectangular pit measuring roughly 2.35 by 1.6 metres and 0.4 metres deep, with two parallel gullies or furrows running north-north-east from just beside it through much of the interior. Whether these internal features represent the footprint of a structure, a drainage arrangement, or something else entirely is not recorded, and that ambiguity is itself part of what makes the site interesting. Most ringforts yield their interior details only to excavation, and this one is no different.