What makes it worth a second look is the construction of its enclosing bank: built from earth but faced on the outside with stone, a combination that speaks to a builder who wanted both mass and a degree of permanence. The bank still stands to a height of 1.7 metres, substantial enough to have retained its shape across the centuries, and to the west a fosse, the shallow defensive ditch that typically accompanies such monuments, survives at a depth of 0.4 metres.

This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish countryside. Ringforts were generally built during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and functioned as enclosed farmsteads, their banks and ditches marking the boundary of a household rather than a military fortification in any serious sense. The stone-facing on this example's outer bank is a detail that sets it slightly apart from the more straightforward earthen variety, suggesting either local building tradition or the particular ambition of whoever commissioned it. Its current state, heavily overgrown and half-returned to the landscape, is typical of sites that have escaped the plough but not the slow work of vegetation.