This is a rath, a type of earthen ringfort that served as a farmstead enclosure during early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the sixth to the twelfth centuries. What makes this one quietly interesting is precisely how unassuming it is: the interior bank rises only about half a metre above the ground inside, though the outer face still stands around two metres tall, and the whole thing is smothered in thorn bushes that make the enclosure feel more hidden than it perhaps intends to be.

The site was recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the national sites database in August 2011. According to those notes, the circular area measures twenty-eight metres in diameter, enclosed by an earthen bank with an external fosse, that is, a ditch dug around the outside of the bank to heighten the defensive effect. The fosse here is four metres wide and 1.3 metres deep, which, combined with the outer height of the bank, would have presented a reasonably formidable boundary in its day. The bank becomes noticeably slighter on the south-southwest to south arc, suggesting either differential erosion over the centuries or some disturbance in that section. The level, undisturbed interior hints that whatever domestic or agricultural activity once took place inside has left the ground largely intact beneath the surface.

Access is through working farmland, so the usual courtesies apply: seek permission before entering. The thorn bushes that cover both the bank and the interior make close inspection awkward for much of the year, and late autumn or winter, when the vegetation has died back, gives the clearest sense of the enclosure's shape and scale. Walking the outer edge of the fosse is the best way to appreciate the true height differential between ditch floor and bank top, which the view from the surrounding field tends to flatten out and understate.