The ground rises, the grass thickens, and what appears to be a low natural bank turns out to be the perimeter of a rath, one of the thousands of earthen ringforts that once served as farmsteads across early medieval Ireland. This one measures roughly 40 metres north to south and 46.5 metres east to west, enclosed by an earthen bank now standing about a metre high and heavily overgrown.

What makes the site quietly arresting is not the bank itself but what lies beneath the south-western portion of the interior: a souterrain. These were underground stone-lined passages or chambers, typically dug during the early medieval period and associated with ringfort settlements, used variously for storage, refuge, or concealment. Their presence in a rath is not unusual across Ireland, but it is always a reminder that what looks like a simple earthwork once sheltered a community with enough resources and organisation to construct something beneath the ground as well as above it. The site appears in a 1994 archaeological survey of the Ballinrobe district compiled by D. Lavelle, which places it among the wider landscape of monuments clustered around Lough Mask and Lough Carra in County Mayo.