It sits on the north-eastern edge of an early medieval ringfort, spilling beyond the line of the original fosse, and it is not shown on the first Ordnance Survey six-inch map of the area. That quiet hydrological accident is one of the more telling details about this particular rath, a word used for an earthen ringfort of the kind that once served as a farmstead enclosure across early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth century.

The fort itself is modest by the standards of its type: a roughly circular area about thirty metres across, enclosed by an earthen bank that rises just over half a metre on the interior side and slightly less on the exterior. Outside the bank runs a fosse, a ditch cut to deepen the sense of enclosure, here roughly half a metre deep and now thoroughly waterlogged. Three breaks interrupt the bank, one to the east, one to the south-south-west, and one to the west-north-west, the widest of them nearly three metres across. Whether these represent original entrances, later breaches, or both is not recorded. The interior sits on a gentle north-east-facing slope in pasture land, its southern half waterlogged, the rest partially colonised by bushes.

What makes the site quietly interesting is precisely what it lacks: the pond now pooling on its north-eastern flank is an unplanned addition to a structure already more than a thousand years old, a small sign of how the ground itself continues to change around features that have otherwise remained more or less in place since the early medieval period.