Set into a gentle east-facing slope in County Limerick, this rath, a ringfort constructed from earthen banks rather than stone, sits in ordinary farmland pasture and yet carries within it a small architectural puzzle: it has two enclosing banks, but only one of them bothers to complete the full circuit.

Ringforts are among the most common archaeological monuments in Ireland, built predominantly during the early medieval period as enclosed farmsteads for single family groups. This one is sub-circular, measuring approximately 42 metres in diameter. The inner bank runs a full loop around the interior, while the outer bank, with a fosse, or ditch, some four metres wide sitting between the two, is only traceable from the south-southwest around to the north-northeast. Whether the outer bank was never finished, has eroded away on other sides, or was deliberately partial is a question the site does not answer. What it does offer, sitting at the base of the inner bank on the western side, is something rarer: a fulacht fiadh, a type of ancient cooking site typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone, thought to have been used for boiling water by heating stones and dropping them into a trough. The association of a fulacht fiadh with a ringfort is an unusual combination and suggests the site had a longer or more layered period of use than most. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded to the national monuments database in August 2011.

The site sits in agricultural land, so access depends on the good will of the landowner and the usual considerations around gates and livestock. The interior is level but lightly overgrown with whitethorn scrub, so a visit in late spring, before the growth becomes too dense, gives the clearest view of the earthworks. The banks themselves are low, none rising more than about 30 centimetres on either face, so the monument reads better from a slight distance than from directly on top of it. The fulacht fiadh to the west of the inner bank is catalogued separately in the national record under reference LI037-106, and looking for that mounded scatter of burnt stone is worth the attention.