This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typically built during the early medieval period, defined here by a bank measuring about 1.2 metres high and enclosing an area of roughly 52 metres east to west and 50 metres north to south. What sets it apart is not its dimensions but its accumulated strangeness: the interior has been deliberately raised on the north-west side to level out the natural hillslope, conifers have been planted in the north-west quadrant near the centre, and the eastern half has grown thick with bushes. Centuries of slow erosion and opportunistic planting have left the earthwork in a state that is half-archaeological and half-overgrown garden.

The site may be the fort recorded by Broker in 1937, described at that time as sitting on Dan Dennehy's land, measuring about half an acre, and noted for its bank lined with stones. That stone-facing, visible externally, is unusual; most earthen ringforts rely on the bank alone, so the reinforcement here suggests either that the original builders anticipated the slope would cause slippage, or that the facing was added later to shore up what time had already begun to undo. Roughly 60 metres to the south-south-east, a pair of standing stones adds another layer to the site. Whether the two features are related in any formal sense is not established, but their proximity on the same stretch of hillside makes the coincidence difficult to ignore.