When surveyors visited in 1998, the enclosure was so densely overgrown that they could not obtain its overall dimensions, and had to rely on aerial and satellite imagery to estimate a diameter of roughly 25 metres. The vegetation had essentially swallowed the thing whole.

A rath, to use the Irish term, is an earthen ringfort, typically a circular enclosure defined by one or more banks and ditches, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period. This one sits on a south-facing slope near the north-western edge of a turlough, which is a seasonally flooding lake characteristic of the limestone karst landscape of the Burren. The combination of improved pasture around it and the turlough beside it speaks to a long history of agricultural use in the area, one that has apparently done little to clear the vegetation engulfing the monument itself. What surveyors could access, at the northern arc of the enclosure, revealed a bank about three metres wide and just under a metre high, with a platform or berm running along its exterior face, roughly two metres wide and slightly higher than the bank itself. The rath appears on the 1916 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, marked with the hachure lines that cartographers used to indicate earthworks, so it was at least visible, and recognisable, over a century ago.