What makes this particular site quietly arresting is the combination of its setting and its survival: a circular enclosure on an east-facing slope, positioned so that whoever once lived within its bounds would have looked out each morning across two lakes in the valley below.

The site is a rath, the most common monument type in the Irish landscape. Raths, or ringforts, were typically the enclosed homesteads of farming families during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, defined by one or more earthen banks and a surrounding ditch. Here the bank, measuring just under thirty metres across in both directions, still stands to about 1.5 metres in height where it has not been levelled, and the external fosse, the drainage and defensive ditch dug outside the bank, remains faintly readable on the south-west to north-west arc, though it has silted down to a depth of only 0.3 metres. A gap 1.5 metres wide in the south-eastern bank almost certainly marks the original entrance. A laneway now runs along the outside of the bank from the north around to the south-east, a common pattern in the Irish countryside where old boundaries and farm tracks have been absorbing the geometry of ancient enclosures for centuries.