This is a rath, the commonest type of ringfort, a form of enclosed farmstead built predominantly in the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, by farming families who raised the enclosing bank from the soil they dug out to form the surrounding ditch. What makes this one worth a second look is the degree to which it has been left to its own devices, the northern half of the enclosure consumed almost entirely by dense vegetation, giving it an uneven, half-legible quality that is more honest about the passage of time than a tidied-up monument would be.

The site was recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the national record in August 2011. The rath measures approximately 31 metres east to west, making it a fairly typical example in terms of scale. The enclosing earthen bank stands around 0.9 metres high on the interior face and 1.2 metres on the exterior, with an external fosse, the ditch that would have been cut first and whose upcast material formed the bank itself, measuring roughly 2.1 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep. The causeway entrance, 2.1 metres wide, faces the east-north-east, a common enough orientation for ringfort entrances. Inside, the ground slopes downward towards that entrance, which would have been a practical consideration for drainage as much as anything else.

The rath sits in working pasture, which means access is a matter of courtesy and common sense rather than a signposted trail. A public road runs along the southern edge of the site, and a field boundary sits immediately outside the fosse between the east and south-east. That road makes the monument reasonably observable from outside without needing to enter the field. The southern arc of the bank and ditch is the clearest section to read from ground level; the northern half, masked by overgrowth, is better understood by walking the circumference and piecing together what the earthworks are doing beneath the scrub. Visiting in late winter or early spring, before the vegetation fully reasserts itself, gives a better sense of the underlying form.