A rath, as this type of monument is known, is an enclosed settlement of early medieval date, typically circular and defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, within which a family or small community would have lived. This one measures roughly 38 metres east to west and 35.5 metres north to south, making it a reasonably substantial example, though what survives today is a denuded earthen bank along its north-eastern arc and, for much of the rest of the circuit, little more than a scarp, a low slope where the original bank has slumped and eroded into the surrounding ground.

What gives the site a quietly complicated character is the degree to which later activity has cut across it. A field bank, the kind of boundary feature that might have been thrown up at any point across the post-medieval centuries to divide agricultural land, crosses the monument at both the north-west and north-east. A townland boundary, one of those ancient administrative lines that still organise the Irish landscape today, curves around the site from north-east to south-east, suggesting that the rath's presence was acknowledged even as it was gradually absorbed into the working countryside around it. An external fosse, a ditch running outside the main enclosure, can still be traced from the south-south-west around to the north-west, hinting at the more elaborate defensive or symbolic arrangement the site once presented.