This is a rath, the most common form of early medieval enclosure in Ireland, typically built between roughly 500 and 1000 AD as a farmstead for a single family or extended household. The bank here measures about 1.7 metres in height and encloses a roughly circular area of 39 metres north to south and 37 metres east to west, dimensions that put it comfortably within the typical range for a single-family settlement. Scattered boulders rest along the top of the bank, remnants perhaps of some later modification or simply stones gathered from the surrounding fields over the centuries.

What makes this particular example quietly notable is its relationship to its immediate surroundings. It sits 300 metres south-west of a second ringfort, and the proximity of two such enclosures raises the possibility that both were in use at the same time, perhaps by related households farming adjacent land. A gap of around three metres in the south-east of the bank would have served as the original entrance, a detail that places it among the majority of Irish raths where the entrance faces roughly east or south-east, broadly aligned with the morning sun. A local archaeological survey of the Ballinrobe district compiled by D. Lavelle in 1994 recorded both sites, situating them within the broader archaeological landscape around Lough Mask and Lough Carra, a part of Mayo where traces of early settlement are woven into the land at almost every turn.