Sitting atop a low hill in open pasture, this ringfort, known in Irish as a rath, is the kind of monument that blends quietly into the agricultural landscape until you notice the slight but unmistakable rise of its enclosing earthen bank. Ringforts were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically enclosing a farmstead and its associated buildings within a circular earthen or stone boundary, and they number in the tens of thousands across the island. Most were built roughly between 500 and 1000 AD, though many continued in use and in memory long after that.

This particular example, recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the national record in August 2011, is roughly circular in plan, measuring approximately 36.8 metres north to south and 39 metres east to west. The enclosing bank survives to a considerably different height depending on where you stand: on the southern side, where it has been incorporated into a modern field boundary, the exterior face still rises to around 2.75 metres, which is a respectable survival. To the north-east, however, the bank has degraded to little more than a scarped edge, roughly half a metre high and two metres wide, and there is a gap at the north-east approximately four metres across that appears to have been worn down by cattle moving in and out of the interior over many years, animals quietly undoing what centuries of weather had not. The enclosing bank itself is thick with briars and hawthorn, which both obscures the structure and, in an unintentional way, protects it.

The interior has its own small topography. The eastern two-thirds slope gently downward toward the west, where the ground levels out across the remaining third. The whole interior is covered in nettles, which is a reliable indicator that the ground beneath has been disturbed or enriched over a long period, and which makes any close inspection a somewhat itchy undertaking. The site sits in working farmland, so access is a matter of seeking landowner permission rather than following a marked path. There are no facilities and no signage; what you get is the bank itself, the view from the hill, and the slightly vertiginous awareness that this low earthwork was once someone's home ground.