The trees have been planted directly within the interior of the monument, which is the kind of quiet irony that Irish fieldwork turns up regularly: a structure that survived centuries of farming now wearing a cap of softwood timber.

The rath itself is a roughly circular raised area, measuring about 25.9 metres east to west and 24 metres north to south, enclosed by a low earthen bank between 2.2 and 4.5 metres wide. At its interior face the bank stands only around 0.3 metres high, which gives the whole thing a subdued profile in the landscape. What distinguishes it from many comparable examples is the stone kerbing running along both the inner and outer edges of the bank, a detail that suggests some care was taken in its original construction. Raths, the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, typically relied on an earthen bank and an outer ditch, called a fosse, to define and protect the homestead within; this one, notably, has no fosse at all. There are two gaps in the bank, each roughly two metres wide, one on the east side where small stones protrude at ground level across the opening, and a second at the north-west. These may represent original entrances, though the stonework at the eastern break complicates a straightforward reading. Perhaps most intriguing is the trace of a possible souterrain within the interior. Souterrains were underground stone-lined passages or chambers, built beneath or beside early medieval settlements and used variously for storage, refuge, or both, and their presence on a site is often the detail that rewards a closer look.