The enclosure is about 31 metres across, and its defining bank, though overgrown, is substantial enough to still read clearly in the landscape as something deliberate and old.

This is a rath, the most common type of early medieval settlement monument found across Ireland. Raths were typically enclosed farmsteads, built and occupied between roughly the sixth and twelfth centuries, where a family unit lived within a raised earthen bank for both practical protection and social display. The position of this one, on the crest of a prominent ridge rather than tucked into lower ground, suggests it was placed with some intention of visibility. A gap about two and a half metres wide on the south-west side may be the original entrance, a detail that, if accurate, tells something about how the enclosure was oriented and approached by its inhabitants. The site is recorded as being in fair condition, meaning the core structure survives even if time and vegetation have softened its edges considerably.