It has survived, but not entirely intact, and the damage it has sustained tells a small story of its own.

The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built and occupied predominantly during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Tens of thousands of them were constructed across Ireland, each defined by one or more earthen banks enclosing a circular or subcircular interior where a farming family would have lived and kept livestock. This particular example measures approximately 37 metres north to south and 31 metres east to west. Its defining bank has been disturbed by quarrying along a substantial arc running from the west-southwest around through the north and continuing to the east, meaning a good portion of what was once a continuous earthen boundary has been cut into or removed altogether. A gap of just over four metres on the eastern side may, however, be original, possibly the site's ancient entrance rather than a later intrusion.