It is a rath, an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically built between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries, consisting here of two concentric earthen banks with a fosse, or ditch, running between them. The outer bank has been reduced almost entirely, remaining visible only at the north-east, while the inner circuit holds its shape well enough to read clearly across the ground.

The enclosure measures approximately forty metres in diameter, which places it comfortably within the range of a single-family farming settlement of the kind that once dotted the Irish countryside in their thousands. A gap in the bank at the north-west may be original, possibly marking where a wooden gate or entrance passage once stood. What complicates the picture is later land division: three townland boundary walls cut across the monument at the north-north-east, south-east, and south, slicing through the earthworks in ways that speak to centuries of agricultural rearrangement and a gradual forgetting of what lay beneath the grass. A connected site, catalogued separately, is associated with this monument, suggesting the area may once have held a cluster of related activity rather than a single isolated enclosure.