What remains is a rath, an early medieval circular or oval enclosure, typically built as a defended homestead for a farming family of some local standing. This one measures roughly 30 metres east to west and 22 metres north to south, and while those dimensions are modest, the site has a particular quality of position: the ground falls steeply to the north-north-east, and the enclosure once looked out over a natural lake basin that has since been drained away.

The northern arc of the perimeter survives as a broad curving scarp, standing about two metres high with a sloped face some four metres wide, cut quite vertically in sections and given extra presence by the natural break of slope beneath it. The southern half tells a different story. Here, the old boundary was absorbed into later field fences, probably as agricultural land was divided and managed across the centuries. A straight stone fence runs along the eastern to southern edge, sitting outside a low berm of earth. Along the south-west to west, a mixed earth and stone field fence follows the original curve of the enclosure closely enough to suggest that whoever built it was working around something they could still see and feel in the land. A shallow internal ditch runs alongside this section. Blackthorn has colonised part of the south-eastern perimeter, which is a common enough pattern on old earthworks, where undisturbed ground at the margins of fields gives thorny scrub somewhere to take hold.

What is quietly interesting about this site is how legible it remains despite the piecemeal reuse of its boundaries. The northern scarp holds its form; the field fences of a later era bend to acknowledge the older geometry beneath them. The drained lake basin to the north-north-east is now just pasture, but the choice of this ridge, with its natural defensive advantages and its command of water and low ground, reflects a logic of settlement that recurs across early medieval Ireland.