What makes it worth a second look is not grandeur but detail: the survival of a multi-part defensive system, including a scarped inner edge, a flat-bottomed fosse, and a counterscarp bank beyond it, all arranged around a roughly 25-metre-wide enclosure. Someone, at some point to the east, dug into the bank and fosse quite aggressively, leaving a drop of over three metres from the top of the scarp to the base of what appears to be a quarried-out section, a wound in the monument that is hard to miss.

This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common archaeological monument type in Ireland. Ringforts were typically enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, built by farming families to define and protect their homestead, livestock, and status. They range from simple earthen banks to elaborate multi-vallate structures with several concentric rings of defence. This example belongs somewhere in the middle of that range: its scarp rises to around 1.7 metres and is best preserved at the north-east, where the counterscarp bank also survives most clearly, with an internal height of 1.2 metres and an external face of 1.25 metres. The flat-bottomed fosse, about 2.5 metres wide, can be traced from the south-west around to the north-east, interrupted where the eastern quarrying has removed it entirely. The site was recorded and described by Denis Power, with the record uploaded in August 2011.

The interior of the enclosure is level but heavily overgrown, and under normal conditions it is difficult to read. Cattle grazing the surrounding pasture have, in places, trampled the vegetation down enough to allow access, so the state of the ground underfoot will depend entirely on when you visit and how recently the animals have been through. The north-east quadrant offers the clearest sense of the monument's original form, where both the scarp and the counterscarp bank are at their most intact. The quarried-out eastern section, whatever its cause, provides an unintended cross-section through the defences that gives a clear sense of their depth and construction. This is farmland, so appropriate permissions and consideration for the working landscape apply.