Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were enclosed farmsteads typically dating from the early medieval period, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. This one has been partially levelled, and yet it has not quite disappeared. What remains is enough to read, if you know what to look for.

The site was recorded as a clearly defined embanked circular enclosure on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1923, indicating it was still legible at that point in its life. By the time Denis Power compiled the monument record, uploaded in August 2011, the picture was more complicated. The enclosure measures roughly 33.5 metres east to west, and along certain arcs, a scarped edge persists, about half a metre high and over six metres wide, running from west-northwest to north-northwest and again from north-northeast to east-northeast. Along the eastern to south-southeastern arc, a dry-stone field wall, standing at around 0.9 metres, has been built directly on top of an older stone bank, the two elements now fused into a single feature but clearly of different ages. Across the northwestern and south-southeastern stretches, however, the enclosing element has been lost entirely, leaving those sections of the circuit blank.

The site sits in pasture on elevated ground, and its hilltop position, typical of many raths across Munster, would have given its original occupants a commanding view of the surrounding land. Because the interior is level and grassed over, there is little to see at ground level once inside the circuit. The real interest lies at the edges, where the surviving scarp and the composite field wall betray the outline of something older beneath. The overlaying of a working farm boundary on an ancient enclosing bank is a pattern seen across Ireland, where later agricultural practice and early medieval settlement have quietly merged into the same strip of stone.