A modern field fence cuts straight through the middle of the monument from east to west, and the southern half has been so thoroughly levelled that no trace of the original enclosure remains on that side. It is, by any measure, a place of near-total erasure.

A rath, to use the Irish term, is a type of enclosed farmstead typically dating from the early medieval period, constructed by raising a circular earthen bank, sometimes reinforced with a ditch, around a domestic settlement. This particular example occupies a small, steep-sided, round-topped natural rise set within low-lying wet grassland, a position that would have offered both visibility and a degree of natural drainage advantage to whoever once lived here. When the first Ordnance Survey mapped the area in 1837, the site was recorded on the Fair Plan as a clearly defined circular enclosure, annotated simply as "fort". By the time the revised six-inch Ordnance Survey edition appeared in 1914, the cartographers could only depict it as a partial enclosure, suggesting that significant destruction had already occurred across those intervening decades. Whatever further loss followed brought the monument to its present condition: one curving remnant scarp and a bisecting fence where a complete enclosure once stood on a quiet rise above the surrounding fields.