What survives is a raised subcircular area, roughly 60 to 65 metres across, defined by a levelled scarp, the remnant edge of what was once a rath. A rath is an early medieval ringfort, typically a circular enclosure bounded by an earthen bank and ditch, used as a farmstead or high-status residence. This one made practical use of an existing natural rise on a northwest to southeast ridge, so the line between deliberate construction and topography is deliberately blurred.

The enclosure once had a deep fosse, a defensive ditch encircling its outer edge, though local knowledge is now the only record of how pronounced it once was. That ditch has since been filled in, and what remains is a slight depression, roughly two and a half to three metres wide, between the levelled scarp and a field fence that follows the townland boundary. The boundary itself curves to respect the enclosure, which suggests that even as farming practice swallowed up the surrounding land, there was some long-held awareness that this circular rise was not quite ordinary ground. A quarry pit cuts into the low hill immediately to the south, its northwest face removed, and a narrow access track skirts the western side of the enclosure, running along the line of the old infilled fosse almost as though the ditch still exerted some quiet influence on how people moved through this landscape.