That positioning is unlikely to be accidental. A raised circular enclosure of roughly twenty-three metres across in both directions, defined by a well-preserved earthen bank, it occupies exactly the kind of vantage point that early medieval farming communities in Ireland tended to favour: defensible, well-drained, and oriented towards water.

A rath, as this type of monument is generally known, is a ringfort defined by earthen rather than stone banks, and would typically have enclosed a farmstead and its inhabitants during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Here the bank is still substantial, standing up to 1.2 metres on its external face at the east side and reinforced on the interior with a kerb of large stones. The gap between the bank and a surrounding field fence varies in width and may preserve, at least in part, the ghost of an original fosse, the defensive ditch that once ran outside the bank. Where the ground drops away to the north-east and south-east, the ridge setting would have added natural elevation to whatever enclosure stood here. Most intriguing is the souterrain recorded in the south-west quadrant of the interior. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, typically associated with ringforts and used for storage or as a place of refuge. There is also a low gap in the bank at the north-east, roughly two metres wide and partially crossed by a line of stones, though whether this represents an original entrance or a later break is not certain.

The interior today is level but increasingly overgrown, with blackthorn advancing across the western half. The encircling field fence carries a dense growth of hawthorn and blackthorn as well, so the site now sits within a kind of natural thicket that simultaneously marks and obscures it. A small heap of stones near the north-west section of the bank is the only other feature visible above ground, an understated remnant of a place that once served as somebody's home and stronghold above two converging rivers.