The ground rises just enough to suggest something deliberate, enclosed by a bank of earth and stone that has been slowly losing the argument with time. This is a rath, a type of ringfort that would once have served as a defended farmstead, most likely during the early medieval period. Thousands of them survive across Ireland in varying states of repair, but this one, in the townland of Craiguedarg, is among the quieter examples.

The site is roughly circular, measuring 31 metres across on its north-south axis. The enclosing bank is about 3.5 metres wide, though it stands only 0.4 metres above the interior ground level and 0.8 metres above the exterior, which is a modest profile even allowing for centuries of erosion and collapse. There is no detectable outer fosse, the ditch that typically runs alongside a ringfort bank to deepen its defensive effect, and no visible trace of an original entrance gap. What the interior does preserve are three quarry-holes, noted by Geraldine Stout in 1984. These scooped depressions suggest that at some point, stone or gravel was lifted from within the enclosure, perhaps by later occupants of the land who found the site more useful as a source of building material than as a feature to be preserved. A second enclosure site lies a short distance to the west, hinting that this corner of upland Tipperary saw more organised activity in the past than its current appearance would suggest.