What remains is a cropmark, the faint discolouration in growing crops that appears above buried ditches when seen from the air, tracing the outline of a rath. A rath is a ringfort, a type of circular enclosed farmstead built during the early medieval period, typically between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and once among the most common human structures across the Irish landscape.

Aerial photographs, including a digital survey image taken in 2006, reveal the enclosure clearly enough: a circular form defined by two concentric ditch features, with an internal diameter of roughly 50 metres and an external diameter of around 65 metres. That double-ditch arrangement places it among the more substantial examples of its type, suggesting it may once have housed a family or small community of some local standing. The site sits on a slight rise with a gentle south-easterly facing slope, a positioning typical of ringforts, which were generally placed to take advantage of drainage and visibility. The perimeter also incorporates a field bank running roughly south to north-west, indicating that later agricultural boundaries were laid out in relation to, or perhaps directly on top of, the older enclosure.