A rath, as this type of monument is generally known, is an early medieval enclosed farmstead, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and an accompanying external ditch, or fosse. Here, the fosse has vanished entirely at ground level, and the enclosing bank, or scarp, has been reduced or removed across much of the circuit, leaving a site that requires some patience to read.

The monument sits on level ground within gently undulating pasture, and covers a roughly circular area of about eighteen metres in diameter. Where the scarp survives best, along the southern and eastern portions of the circuit, it still reaches an external height of around half a metre. Elsewhere the picture is more complicated. Along the western and north-western arc, the bank has been largely levelled, with only a low remnant of about thirty centimetres remaining. From the north-north-east around to the east, even that remnant is gone, replaced by a faint inward-facing scarp that marks where the original bank once stood before it was removed. From the east to south-east, it is absent altogether. The original entrance cannot be identified. Adding to the sense of accumulated interference, a drystone wall running roughly south-west to north-east cuts across the interior, and the ground to the north-west of this wall has been deliberately levelled. The site did not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map produced in 1837, which suggests it was already in a degraded condition, or simply overlooked, at the time of that early survey. What the landscape holds now is essentially the ghost of an enclosure, its outline legible only in fragments.