The earthwork is substantial enough to read clearly in the landscape: a subcircular enclosure measuring around 55 metres across its longer axis, with a bank of earth and stone still standing to a height of 1.2 metres along much of its circuit. A fosse, the external ditch that would have made the bank harder to breach, survives to a depth of nearly a metre along the north and western stretches. This combination of raised interior, enclosing bank, and external ditch is the defining anatomy of a rath, the commonest monument type in the Irish countryside and the typical residence of a farming family of some local standing during the early Christian period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries.

What makes this particular example quietly interesting is how it has been absorbed into the working landscape while retaining enough of its original structure to be read as something deliberate and old. Along the south and south-west, the ancient bank has been modified and folded into a field boundary, the kind of pragmatic reuse that has erased thousands of similar monuments across the country. Elsewhere, though, the defining edge survives as a natural-looking scarp rather than a constructed bank, suggesting variation in how the enclosure was originally formed or maintained. A short run of drystone walling against the outer face of the bank at the north-west is considered a relatively recent addition, layered onto a much older structure. Three gaps break the circuit at the north, east, and north-west; the north-west break, which is 1.6 metres wide and accompanied by a causeway crossing the fosse, is the most suggestive of an original entrance, the point where a path once led across the ditch and through the bank into whatever domestic world the enclosure once contained. The interior ground is uneven, hinting at activity below the surface that no longer shows clearly from above.