That collision of two very different eras of land management is what makes the site quietly arresting, even in its diminished state.

The earthwork is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typically dating to the early medieval period, roughly 500 to 1000 AD, when such structures were the standard form of rural settlement across Ireland. This particular example is subcircular in plan, measuring approximately 43 metres east to west and 38.5 metres north to south, and was originally defined by three banks with two intervening fosses, the ditches running between the raised banks. Where the modern wall has not intervened, from the north-west through north to north-east, those earthen remains are still reasonably legible. The site was noted as early as 1914 by Neary. Within the interior there is also a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber that in early medieval contexts served variously for storage, refuge, or ventilation of a dwelling. Its presence suggests this was once a settlement of some substance, the kind of place where a farming household invested considerable effort in both above-ground enclosure and below-ground infrastructure.