What makes it worth pausing over is not its grandeur but its legibility: the proportions are modest, yet the structure survives well enough to read as a coherent shape on the ground.

The enclosure measures approximately 27.5 metres north to south and 26 metres east to west, defined by a bank of earth and stone. The bank itself is about 1.3 metres wide, rising around 1.22 metres on the interior and 1.6 metres on the exterior side. A gap of just over 2 metres cuts through the bank in the south-west quadrant, which is likely the original entrance. The eastern side of the bank has been levelled, probably through agricultural activity over the centuries, and there is no visible external fosse, the ditch that typically runs outside the bank on more elaborate examples of this type. A rath, as this class of monument is commonly known, is a circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. They are among the most numerous archaeological monument types in Ireland, yet each one preserves a slightly different set of details about how it was built, used, and worn down over time. The absence of a fosse here, and the way the eastern bank has been reduced, give this particular example a quieter profile than some of its more substantial counterparts.