These enclosures, typically built between roughly 500 and 1000 AD, were the farmsteads of their era, a bank of earth and stone enclosing a living and working space for a family and their animals. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is the care with which its builders adapted it to the natural lie of the land.

The rath measures approximately twenty metres across and is defined by a bank of earth and stone between 2.8 and 3 metres wide. On the south-western arc, where the ground falls away, the outer slope of the bank was built up considerably, reaching a height of 1.8 metres on the exterior, in order to create a level interior despite the natural incline. That kind of deliberate engineering is easy to overlook when you are standing at the edge of a grazed field, but it reflects real practical intelligence. A stream runs roughly thirty metres downslope to the south, sitting on the boundary of the townland itself, and would have been a convenient water source for whoever lived here. At the north-north-east to south-east arc, the bank has been absorbed into or adapted as a field boundary, which is a common fate for ringforts across Ireland; the curve of the old enclosure simply became a convenient line for a later farmer to follow. There is also some surface erosion and disturbed ground visible at the south-east of the perimeter.