That abrupt drop of somewhere between one and one and a half metres, where the eastern side of both structures has evidently been dug away at some point, gives the site an oddly truncated quality, as if half the evidence has been quietly removed.

A rath is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically circular, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. The hut sites here occupy the eastern half of the rath interior. The better-documented of the two is roughly square or subcircular in plan, measuring 5.4 metres both north to south and east to west, and is defined on its southern, western, and northern sides by a low bank of earth and stone, about 1.9 metres wide and 0.35 metres high. A second hut site adjoins it directly to the south. The pairing of hut sites within a single rath interior is not unusual for early medieval Ireland, where extended family groups often shared an enclosure, but the loss of the eastern side of both structures makes it difficult to read the full original layout with any confidence.