What once stood here as a rath, the Irish term for a roughly circular earthwork enclosure used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, has been substantially levelled, leaving only the faintest trace in the ground. That near-total erasure is itself part of what makes the site worth noting.

When the site was described in 1978, it still retained enough form to be measured and mapped: a circular area of approximately thirty metres east to west, defined by a scarp, with traces of a faint external fosse, a shallow ditch that would originally have ringed the enclosure, at the south-south-west, and a possible counterscarp bank, the low ridge of earth thrown up on the outer edge of such a ditch. These features are the standard defensive and boundary elements of a rath, and their presence, even in degraded form, confirmed the site's identity. By 2011, even that faint earthwork topography had largely given way, and the enclosure was only detectable as a cropmark on a Digital Globe aerial photograph taken that November. Cropmarks appear when buried features affect how grass or crops grow above them, producing subtle variations in colour or height that are invisible at ground level but legible from the air, particularly in dry conditions or late in the growing season.