There is no visible fosse, the defensive ditch that typically rings such enclosures on the outside, and there is no identifiable original entrance. Most Irish raths, the earthen ringforts that once served as enclosed farmsteads during the early medieval period, present at least a gap or causeway in their bank to indicate where a gate once stood. Here, the circular earthen bank simply continues unbroken around a grass-covered interior, offering no obvious clue as to how its inhabitants came and went.

The enclosure sits towards the southern edge of a broad plateau in County Roscommon, a fairly modest structure by the standards of its type. The bank defines a roughly circular area just over twenty-one metres across, the bank itself between two and a half and nearly three metres wide, with an interior height of around half a metre. What it lacks in dramatic scale it makes up for in company. Two further raths sit close by on the same plateau, one roughly 180 metres to the west-northwest and another about 160 metres to the northwest. Clusters of ringforts like this are known from many parts of Ireland, and they suggest that the landscape here was once a settled, organised farming territory, with neighbouring enclosures possibly housing related family groups or successive generations of the same community across the early medieval centuries.