A rath, as these enclosures are known in Irish, was typically a circular earthen bank enclosing a farmstead or high-status dwelling, common across the Irish landscape from the early medieval period. This one has been almost entirely levelled, leaving only a curving arc of a poorly preserved earth and stone bank, with a shallow external fosse, the term for a defensive ditch, tracing a partial circuit from the north-east around through east and south to south-west. The rest of the enclosing element has been erased.

What makes the site quietly interesting is what the historical maps reveal about its gradual disappearance from the record. When the Ordnance Survey produced its first six-inch map of the area in 1837, no monument was marked at this location at all, suggesting the site had already been significantly reduced or was simply not recognised at that time. By the revised twenty-five-inch edition of 1911, only the curving arc of the enclosing feature was depicted, hinting that what little survived was just enough, by then, to register. A second ringfort lies roughly 360 metres to the north-west, a reminder that such sites rarely occurred in isolation; clusters of raths across a landscape often reflect family groupings or farming communities occupying adjacent territories over centuries. This one, sitting in its hollow of higher ground, has been slowly absorbed back into the land around it.