It is easy to miss, and in truth there is not much left to see: a subcircular earthwork, roughly 13.5 metres north to south and 12 metres east to west, defined partly by a degraded earthen bank along its northern and north-eastern arc, and elsewhere only by a scarp, a slight drop in the terrain where a boundary once stood more firmly.

Enclosures of this kind are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape, yet their very ordinariness makes them easy to overlook. They are generally understood as the remains of raths or ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, where a family and their livestock sheltered within a raised bank and sometimes a ditch. Most date broadly to the first millennium AD, though some are older or later. This particular example sits approximately 50 metres west of a cashel, a related monument type built from stone rather than earth, which suggests the two features may belong to the same broad period of activity in this part of north Galway. Whether they were contemporary with each other, or whether one succeeded the other across generations of use, is something the surviving remains cannot easily answer.