The trees have colonised the interior of a rath, a type of ringfort that was once the enclosed farmstead of an early medieval Irish family, typically dating to somewhere between the sixth and tenth centuries. What gives this particular example a quietly satisfying quality is the precision of its survival: an earthen bank still standing 1.7 metres high encircles an almost perfectly circular area, roughly 39.5 metres north to south and 38 metres east to west, with a fosse, the defensive ditch dug just outside the bank, still measurable at 0.6 metres deep. A possible counterscarp bank, a low secondary mound thrown up on the outer edge of the fosse, survives along the northwest to north arc, adding a further layer to what was once a carefully engineered boundary.

The entrance is where the site becomes most legible. A gap five metres wide opens to the southwest, and a causeway crosses the fosse to carry a visitor or, once, a farmer and livestock across the threshold. The eastern side of this entrance retains partial stone facing, suggesting that whoever built or modified it put some effort into making the approach permanent and presentable. There is also a drop of 0.8 metres from the entrance down onto the causeway itself, a small but real obstacle that would have made the gap easier to defend or control. The bank has suffered some damage to the east-southeast, but the overall form is coherent enough that the geometry of the original enclosure reads clearly from within the tree cover.