A rath is a type of circular earthwork enclosure, typically dating to the early medieval period in Ireland, built as a farmstead and defined by one or more banks and ditches. This one has been losing definition at a steady rate, to the point where its boundaries are now, in places, readable only as a faint difference in the way grass grows.

The 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map marked it plainly as a circular enclosure labelled "Fort", a common cartographic shorthand for such earthworks across Ireland. When it was examined in 1994, the structure was still reasonably legible: a raised circular area of roughly 26 metres in diameter, enclosed on its eastern half by a low rounded bank of earth and stone, and on its western half by a bank sitting on top of a natural scarp. The remains of an entrance were visible on the east side. By 2012, however, the enclosing bank had been levelled entirely. What survives is an oval raised platform, approximately 26 metres east to west and between 15 and 18 metres north to south, with a sloping scarp around 1.7 metres high on the west side and roughly 7 metres wide. That scarp blends so smoothly into the natural rise of the ground that it becomes difficult to say with confidence where human construction ends and natural topography begins. On the eastern arc, the interior is now level with the surrounding ground, and only the slight variation in grass growth hints at where the boundary once was. The surface itself appears to have been stripped of topsoil and graded. At some point, a vernacular cottage and stone shed were built against the northern slope, truncating the rath further; both structures are now derelict.

What makes this site quietly instructive is the way it illustrates the cumulative pressure that ordinary land use places on archaeological monuments. Agricultural improvement, building activity, and gradual levelling have together reduced a once-legible enclosure to something that, in parts, has to be inferred rather than seen. The scarp on the western side remains the most tangible feature, but the rath as a whole now reads more as a subtle reshaping of the hillside than as a monument in any conventional sense.