The feature is large, around 66 metres in diameter, placing it comfortably in the category of a substantial rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which is a circular enclosure typically formed by one or more earthen banks and ditches and used as a farmstead or dwelling site during the early medieval period. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is the gap in its northwestern quadrant, an absence that shows up clearly on the earliest mapped record of the site.

When the Ordnance Survey produced its first edition six-inch map in 1839, the enclosure was recorded as a roughly circular field with no enclosing element surviving in the northwest. By the time the revised edition was produced around 1900 to 1901, a field boundary had been drawn running northeast to southwest across that same section of the perimeter, suggesting the gap had by then been incorporated into ordinary agricultural land division. The local historian William Carrigan, writing in 1905, noted the site alongside a neighbouring rath to its west, both lying in land then belonging to a Mr. Sheehy. Carrigan recorded both features using the local term "raw," a regional pronunciation of rath that speaks to how deeply this landscape vocabulary had settled into everyday speech. A river runs roughly 50 metres to the south, flowing eastward, a detail consistent with the kind of sheltered, water-adjacent positioning commonly chosen for early medieval settlement.