This ringfort, or rath, measures 27 metres across its interior and represents one of thousands of similar defensive homesteads that once dotted the Irish countryside. The site consists of three main elements: an inner earthen bank standing nearly a metre high, a defensive ditch or fosse that’s up to 3.7 metres wide and 1.3 metres deep, and traces of an outer bank that reaches 1.4 metres in height on its best-preserved northeastern side.

The original entrance to this fortified farmstead remains clearly visible on the northeast, where a 3.3-metre gap in the inner bank aligns with a causeway crossing the fosse and a corresponding break in the outer bank. A stone, roughly 60 centimetres long, has been set into the inner bank at this point, likely serving as an entrance marker; a small but significant detail that has survived centuries of erosion and agricultural activity. While much of the outer defences have been worn away by time and farming, the northeastern section preserves the clearest picture of the fort’s original triple-banked design.

Dating from roughly the 6th to 12th centuries AD, ringforts like this one served as protected homesteads for prosperous farming families. The multiple banks and ditches weren’t just defensive features; they also displayed the occupants’ social status and wealth. Today, the fort sits quietly in good pasture land with limited views of the surrounding countryside, much as it would have done when it was home to an early medieval farming family. Its survival offers a tangible link to a time when these circular earthworks were the most common settlement type across rural Ireland.