What survives is an oval rath, a type of enclosed settlement common across early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular or oval bank and ditch surrounding a domestic area. This one measures roughly 53 metres on its longer axis and about 37 metres across, defined by two banks with a fosse, or ditch, running between them. That arrangement is best read along the north-east to eastern arc, where the ground has been left more or less alone.

Elsewhere, the picture is less clear. Ploughing and bulldozing have eaten into the enclosing elements, blurring the profile that would once have announced this as a place of some domestic consequence. A gap on the western side appears to be a modern intrusion rather than the original entrance. The site was noted by Neary in 1914, catalogued as number 57 in a survey that captured many such monuments before the pressures of twentieth-century agriculture had fully run their course. By the time of later inventories of County Galway, it was already described as poorly preserved, a designation that places it in a large and melancholy category of earthworks that survive more as suggestions than as structures.