It does not announce itself. Raised only about twenty centimetres above the surrounding ground, ringed by a shallow fosse (a drainage or enclosure ditch) roughly one and a third metres wide and a low outer bank, this small platform structure is easy to walk past without registering what it might once have been. It measures twelve metres by six, aligned northeast to southwest, and sits at the point where a valley slope softens into flatter ground, with moderate views stretching along and across the valley in either direction.

The structure was first noted during a field inspection in 1987, and its outline was confirmed again when aerial surveyor Simon Dowling photographed the area on 30 December 2014. From the air, the fosse defining the rectangular form becomes legible in a way it rarely is at ground level, the slight differences in grass tone and shadow picking out edges that centuries of weathering have all but smoothed away. Immediately to the north of the platform, a large wide bank has been recorded separately, and it may represent the southern edge of a hollow-way, the sunken trackway left by generations of repeated foot and animal traffic along the same route. Whether the platform structure was a building base, an enclosure of some kind, or something else entirely, the record is careful not to say. Its proximity to the adjacent graveyard, itself a scheduled monument, suggests this corner of Rathealy carries several overlapping layers of use across time, though the precise relationship between them remains unresolved.