A rath is a ringfort, typically a circular earthen enclosure used as a farmstead or homestead during the early medieval period in Ireland, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries. This one sits on a ridge summit in undulating grassland, which would once have made it a commanding presence in the landscape, the kind of elevated position early farmers and landholders chose deliberately, for visibility, drainage, and a degree of natural defence.

The monument measures approximately 36 metres in diameter. It survives only partially as a raised bank, running from the south-southwest through the west and around to the northeast. Elsewhere the boundary survives not as an earthen bank but as a scarp, a steep natural or cut slope in the ground that traces the line of the original enclosure where the bank itself has worn away or been removed. References compiled by Knight around 1975 and Conway around 1980 both noted the site, though already in a poor state of preservation by the time those surveys were carried out. The road cutting through the southern side represents the kind of incremental loss that affects many such monuments across rural Ireland, where the infrastructure of later centuries has overlaid the archaeology of earlier ones without ever quite erasing it entirely.