What should be a full circle is now a D-shape, its eastern arc sheared off by a track that presumably predates any modern concern for what lies beneath the soil.

A rath is an earthen ringfort, the most common type of early medieval settlement monument in Ireland, typically consisting of a raised bank enclosing a roughly circular area where a farmstead once stood. This particular example at Labbamolaga sits on a south-west-facing slope in pasture, and its outline has been visible on Ordnance Survey maps since at least 1842, where it appears as a hachured oval. The same shape recurs on the 1903 and 1936 editions, a quiet consistency across nearly a century of cartography. The enclosing earthen bank survives to about one metre in external height, with a fosse, that is, a defensive ditch, running around the outside. That fosse is now waterlogged, fed by a stream that passes through it and exits to the south-south-west, which gives the monument an oddly active, living quality. There are numerous gaps through the bank, including a more pronounced break to the north-west, and the interior has become heavily overgrown. The overall diameter north to south is about 34 metres, though the laneway truncation reduces the east-west interior measurement to around 20 metres.

The site is on private farmland, and the overgrown interior and waterlogged fosse make close inspection difficult in any season. The stream that keeps the ditch wet is perhaps the most immediately noticeable feature from the outside, audible before it is visible in wetter months.