A rath is an early medieval farmstead enclosure, typically defined by one or more banks and ditches, and here the domestic detail survives inside rather than at its perimeter.

The more thoroughly recorded of the two occupies a roughly square or subrectangular footprint, measuring approximately 5.3 metres north to south and 5 metres east to west. It is defined on three sides, the south, west, and north, by a low bank of earth and stone, around 1.9 metres wide and 0.35 metres high. A second hut site adjoins it directly to the north and shares that northern bank, so the boundary between the two structures is also the wall that closes each one. What is unusual here is the eastern side of both huts: it appears to have been dug away at some point, leaving a sharp drop in ground level of roughly one to one and a half metres. Whether this happened in antiquity, as part of some later agricultural activity, or through some other disturbance, the notes do not say, but the result is that both structures are now open on that side in a way that was almost certainly not original, giving the site a slightly unfinished, eroded character.