A rath is an early medieval enclosed farmstead, typically circular, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and this one originally measured some 60.5 metres in diameter. That is a substantial enclosure, roughly the size of a large playing field, and it would once have enclosed a household, its outbuildings, and perhaps livestock. Today, only the section running from the north-east to the south-west survives to any appreciable height, rising to about 1.6 metres, and what remains has been absorbed into the field fence system of the surrounding pasture, its ancient purpose quietly overwritten by modern agricultural convenience.

The survival record here is a small study in how ringforts disappear. Writing in 1939, P. J. Hartnett noted traces of a deep wide fosse, the external ditch that would have complemented the bank, running to the west of the site. That feature is now gone, or at least indistinct. More telling still is the account from local information that the bank to the north and north-west was levelled around the 1970s during field fence clearance, a process that affected thousands of such monuments across Ireland during that period of agricultural intensification. The site sits on a south-facing slope in pasture, a setting that would have made good practical sense to whoever built it, offering drainage, shelter, and a commanding view of the surrounding ground.