A rath, as these enclosures are commonly known in Irish usage, was typically a circular or oval area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, serving as a farmstead and place of shelter for a family and their livestock. This one, on a north-east-facing slope of gently rolling hill, was still legible on the ground as recently as 1977, when inspectors caught it in the final stages of its disappearance.

By the time it was recorded that year, the enclosure retained only a section of earthen bank running from the south-west to north-north-west, with an internal height of around one metre and an external height of two metres, the base spreading to over four metres. The full structure, as it appeared on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840 and again on the revised edition of 1904 to 1905, was considerably more impressive: a large, roughly circular enclosure measuring approximately 65 metres north to south and 61 metres east to west, with trees growing within the interior. That tree cover, visible across two separate cartographic surveys spanning more than sixty years, suggests the site had already been out of agricultural use for some time before the twentieth century, left to seed itself over while the land around it changed. By 1977, the housing construction had done what centuries of field clearance had not, and the enclosure was gone.